SSX Blur

A new hint dropped on Twitter by the UK EA developer rekindles old suspicions.

In the conference call that followed Activision Blizzard's financial results yesterday, a couple of details emerged about Bizarre Creations' racing game, Blur. Firstly, the president and CEO of the company's publishing unit, Michael Griffith, confirmed that the company plans to release the game in the back half of calendar 2009. Good news, given that it's nearly two years since Activision snapped Bizarre away from the Project Gotham series and details on the project are still thin on the ground.

ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users voted for Call of Duty 4, 1279 for Halo 3, 1192 for Assassin's Creed, 837 for None of the Above, 716 for BioShock, 710 for Crysis, 627 for The Orange Box, and so on. The rest of the results can be viewed in ActionTrip's voting poll section. ¿ People's Choice: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ¿ Runners-up: Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Crysis, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box ¿ Game of the Year (ActionTrip Staff): Portal ¿ Runners-up: Mass Effect, Halo 3, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher ¿ Best Action Game: Halo 3 ¿ Runners-up: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, God of War II, BioShock, Crysis ¿ Best Strategy Game: World in Conflict ¿ Runners-up: Supreme Commander, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars ¿ Best RPG: Mass Effect ¿ Runners-up: The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer ¿ Best Sports Game: FIFA 08 ¿ Runners-up: SSX Blur, NHL 08, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 ¿ Best MMOG: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade ¿ Runners-up: Tabula Rasa, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ¿ Best Rhythm/Music Game: Rock Band ¿ Runners-up: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock ¿ Babe of the Year: Joanna Krupa

20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague

Played the Burnout Paradise demo yet? Stupidly good, isn't it? Since we got hold of the Xbox Live preview we've been having an almost illegally good time discovering the new delights of Paradise City. It's been a non-stop orgy of melting tarmac, leaping off carpark roofs, barrell-rolling across beaches and handbrake turning into parking spaces at 100 miles per hour. What's got us extra excited about the demo though is something entirely unrelated to Burnout. While it was great to discover that

With the full Opera browser slowly - and we mean slowly - downloading into the Wii's master-brain, there's no better time to indulge in a spot of YouTubing shenanigans. It's here gamers reveal acts of gaming prowess beyond our meager arm-flailing goofiness, and demonstrate how to milk every drop of fun from those Wii discs. Now get surfing. Remote Flicks - Big screen Wii by hohlerman Watch as a group of enterprising Wii fanatics create the real big screen gaming experience. That such a tiny

Last night we celebrated the upcoming release of EA Montreal's SSX Blur at what was likely the coldest launch party ever, located in the famed Ice Hotel in Quebec. Blur 's development team didn't seem phased by the sub-zero temperature, and enthusiastically handed us the controls to the SSX franchise's Wii debut. It's a good thing that Blur requires almost no button pressing to play, because by the time we picked up a pair of controllers, we'd forgotten what our fingers felt like.

You can never have too many views of such a clean, vibrant-looking game as SSX Blur, which will whisk its way onto Wii in March. So here we've scooped up a new batch of shots from the motion-controlled snowbound racer. Hit the Images tab above for the

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The avalanche of info on the Wii's SSX Blur has snowballed into a such a flurry of images and video today that it can only be described using cheap snow-based metaphors. Best of all, today's stuff concerns exactly how the controls work. We even get a glimpse of one Uber Trick that'll have you drawing hearts on the screen as if it were your old Jonathan Taylor Thomas poster. Click on either the Images or Movies tab above to see what we