Sorti récemment au Japon et ayant écopé d'un 34/40 par Famitsu,nbsp;Family Ski 2 nbsp;sortira en Février 2009 en Europe.nbsp;L'attente sera donc de courte durée. Au passage, le soft change de titre. En effet, il portera chez nous le nom de Family Ski amp; Snowboard afin de faire le lien avecnbsp;sa principale nouveauté à savoir pouvoir faire du snowboard. De nouvelles images du jeu accompagnent cette annonce. En attendant, lesnbsp;amateurs de glissenbsp;peuvent toujours se tourner vers Shaun White Snowboarding.

Sortie : 4 décembre 2008 Shaun White Snowboarding est comme, son nom land#039;indique une simulation de Snowboard tournant avec le moteur de Assassinand#039;s Creed. Bien loin des sensations arcades de SSX, Shaun White Snowboarding gérera plus finement le centre de gravité du surfeur et ne proposera pas des figures incroyables. La petite particularité, cand#039;est que le joueur sera libre de se promener dans des environnements ouverts (quatre montagnes sont prévues : Alpes, Japon, Alaska et Utah) avec chacun leur particularité. au programme : Descente classique, course, pipe etc.

Apple released the iTunes top-seller and best-of lists for 2008 this week, and Ask A Ninja was once again took top honors on the “Classics” Video Podcast list. On the more traditional media side, Gossip Girl was the top-selling TV season on iTunes while The Dark Knight (which hasn’t even been released yet on iTunes) came in at No. 1 on downloaded movie chart.

Apple doesn’t spell out whether the video podcast list is editorially created or based on hard numbers, but either way, new media shows are well represented on both the 2008 and Classics video podcast lists. Making the cut this year are:

2008

• Who What Wear - 60Frames
• Best of Current TV - Current
• Beginning Guitar 101 - ivideosongs.com
• ill doctrine - Jay Smooth (a NewTeeVee Top 10 Breakout Video Star!)
• Scam School - Revision3
• Howcast Food & Drink - Howcast
• Project Lore - Deca
• SuperNews - Current TV
• TPMtv - TPMtv (Talking Points Memo)

CLASSICS

• Ask A Ninja - Beatbox Giant
• Onion News Network - The Onion (which held the newcomer top spot last year)
• Wine Library TV - Wine Library TV
• Channel Frederator - NextNewNetworks
• Diggnation - Revision3
• Cool Hunting Video - coolhunting.com
• Hawaii Surf Session Report - surfsessionreport.com
• Geekbrief.TV - Cali Lewis
• Beautiful Places in HD - ON Networks
• Terra: The Nature of Our World - lifeonterra.com
• CHTV: College Humor Originals - CollegeHumor
• shralp!//snowboarding video podcast - shralp.com/snow
• Tekzilla - Revision3

Over on the oldteevee side of things, Gossip Girl Season 2 was the top-selling TV season. Joss Whedon’s uber-popular Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (which technically isn’t a TV show) also cracked the top 10, beating out shows like House and Desperate Housewives. Of course, if NBC’s iTunes numbers are any indication, none of these shows are being downloaded in huge numbers.

TOP SELLERS: TV SEASONS

• Gossip Girl, Season 2
• Family Guy, Season 7
• South Park: Uncensored, Season 12
• Grey’s Anatomy, Season 5
• Mad Men, Season 2
• Heroes, Season 3
• The Office, Season 5
• Lost, Season 4
• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
• Grey’s Anatomy, Season 4

The Top Movie Downloads for 2008 on iTunes is ruled by The Dark Knight, a movie that as of now, can only be pre-ordered. Whereas you can kind of understand the popularity of certain shows on the TV side, some of the top movie downloads are a bit unexpected. Sure, WALL-E and Iron Man make sense, but Shooter? National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets? Jumper? Really?

TOP MOVIE DOWNLOADS

• The Dark Knight
• WALL-E
• Kung Fu Panda
• Iron Man
• Shooter
• National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
• Superbad
• Jumper
• Enchanted
• No Country for Old Men

What, no Zoolander?

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Destineer and developer BongFish have announced the launch date of Stoked, the openworld, backcountry snowboarding video game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360.

Nous avons enfin la liste des gagnants du concours Shaun White Snowboarding, le meilleur repartira avec le jeu Wii, le second avec un jeu DS, tandis que les autres vainqueurs auront le droit à tout un tas de goodies. Voyez plutôt !O. Christophe de Morsang sur Orge repart avec un jeu Wii, un casque de snow' et des goodiesL. Antoine de Paris repart avec le jeu DS et des goodiesP. Alexandre de Paris repart avec des goodiesT. Kevin de Dijon repart avec des goodiesG. Blandine de Knutange repart avec des goodiesLes goodies du jeu contiennent un porte-forfait, un sticker et un skin pour Wiimote.

Rollick Guides (RollickGuides.com), the online Community for Savvy & Indulgent Activity Enthusiasts, announces the launch of its Snowsports community for skiers and snowboarders. Skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts and experts can come to the Snowsports community to read, share and vote on ski and snowboard tips and gear discoveries submitted by enthusiasts like themselves. The site's unique appeal is its fun and simple "playing card" format that encourages people to talk about their favorite gear, share tips, add videos, and vote for "hot tips" and "cool gear". Ski and snowboard instructors, gear manufacturers, apparel designers, and snowsports retailers are welcome to participate in this new community. Membership is free. (PRWeb Dec 2, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/skiing-snowboarding/rollickguides/prweb1675634.htm

Or will it get too cold?

The biggest names is snowboarding are coming together this December for the biggest event in the history of winter sports. Shaun White, Danny Davis, Andy Finch, Chas Guldemond, Mason Aguirre, Hannah Beaman and many more will go head to head, all hoping to get their hands on the 1.5 million dollar prize purse. The Winter Dew Tour is coming, so keep your eyes peeled.

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coming down the south divide on lookout mountain in sunshine village in banff national park.

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Better, brighter, faster games--and perhaps more profits--are in Nintendo's future
Hardcore gamers may still scoff at Nintendo's Wii for catering to casual gamers. But hidden behind its Clark Kent facade are some impressive financial muscles.

Nintendo rocked the gaming world when it brought out the Wii gaming console three years ago by turning an entirely new demographic of users on to gaming. Middle-aged and senior citizens stood in line to buy Wiis on the strength of games like Wii Fit, which audiences found more fun than workout DVDs.

To date, Nintendo has sold nearly 35 million Wiis, including 12.6 million in the U.S., Nintendo's biggest market. That's lower than Sony's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 2, which has sold 43 million units since 2000. But it's still pretty high for a console that, at launch, was technologically a generation behind its chief competitors, Sony's PlayStation 3, with 13 million units in users' living rooms, and Microsoft's Xbox 360, with 23 million units. This year, the Wii is expected to sell more than the best-selling PS2 sold in its best year, 2003.

Just as interesting as how Nintendo has changed the gaming world, however, has been its business approach. Nintendo sells games along the time-honored razor-razor blade model, namely pushing out the console and then enticing users to buy more games.

"More casual players aren't as likely to be attracted by hardware features, so it's all about delivering a fun, easy-to-use and addicting game experience," says Anita Frazier, toy and video game analyst at NPD Group.

Another factor in enticing those casual users is keeping its console cheap. "The key thing about Nintendo is they want their things to be at price points that anyone can respond to," says Hiroshi Kamide, director of research at KBC Securities Japan. Nintendo's strategy is to buy inexpensive components instead of making them in-house, allowing the Wii to sell for $260 while the PS3 costs $300.

But here's the winning point: Unlike its competitors, Nintendo has figured out how to make money from its console sales. Sony loses money on each Playstation sold. Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) might just break even. But every Wii brings in $6 of operating profit for Nintendo, says David Gibson, an analyst at Macquarie Securities.

Nintendo also sells 60% of Wii games itself, compared with 30% for Microsoft and 15% for Sony. Wii users are expected to buy the most games this year, 220 million, compared with 120 million PS3 games and 125 million for the Xbox 360.

The top three Wii games--"Wii Play," "Super Smash Brothers Brawl" and "Super Mario Galaxy"--are all Nintendo's own titles, but the top three for PS3--"Grand Theft Auto IV," "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" and "Assassin's Creed"--are all from outside developers, not from Sony.

By making most of its games itself, Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ) risks sacrificing the chance to earn licensing fees from as many third-party developers as its competitors. It also prices games cheaper--at $50 versus $60 for the other two consoles. But so far the gambit has paid off: Wii locks in fans because many of its most popular games appear exclusively on the Wii. And Nintendo has a higher gross margin on game software than the others at 65%, compared with between 50% and 60%.

Those only-available-here games sell better than games that have been ported to other consoles because the Wii's unique features--the motion-sensor remote, for instance--make it hard to translate into other systems. PS3 and Xbox 360 games can be ported between those two systems fairly easily, but developers that want to make a game for all three consoles need a dedicated Wii team to write the Nintendo version.

Ubisoft's new "Shaun White Snowboarding" game, which shipped in late November, uses the Wii Fit motion board to simulate full-motion snowboarding; its Xbox and PS versions push online virtual snowboarding with friends.

http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2...s-1201wii.html