SSX 3

The best way to enjoy SSX 3 is as follows: Head to peak three. Set background music to ‘mountain ambience’ only. Commence carving the fresh powder. As far as I’m concerned, sliding your way from the top of peak three to the bottom of peak one is nigh on gaming perfection, and the closest you’ll get to the thrill of snowboarding without fear of smashing your body into tiny pieces when you hit a tree.

So EA has registered a bunch of new SSX domains. And they use some pretty specific wording, implying there's a definite project in mind for them. Which means there's a very good chance we'll be getting a new SSX game relatively soon.

The thought of a proper new SSX usually makes me float off into the misty, unicorn-filled, soft-focus meadow in my head, and when I return, I'm always weeping slightly (albeit in a manly way). So am I excited? Well no. No, I'm not yet. In fact I'm a bit worried. And I'll explain why when I give you the full details over the jump.

So Peter Moore is being all ambiguous again. This time though, my usual screening system for teasing corporate ambiguity has been bypassed. Because he’s been talking about SSX, EA's stunning snowboarding series. And despite having been spurned by the series for years, I am still in love with SSX. Hopeless romantic, stupid fool, crazy stalker, call me what you will. But I still await a new one.

There’s a whole lot of (admittedly sketchy) evidence knocking around that a new SSX might yet happen, but will it? Could it? Should it? And if it does, what form should it take? Click on and I’ll give you a full run down of all of the above.

Bloc Party's song "Helicopter" can make anything amazing, but it didn't have to work too hard during the tram-ride sequence in Getting Up. Say what you will about the game, but frantically leaping between four aerial cable cars and shimmying around their edges to spray paint a single giant message - all while dodging machinegun fire and tossing riot cops - felt overwhelmingly badass the first time we did it.