Snowskate Gets Amped

Microsoft Game Studios announced today that it’s exclusive snowboarding game for the Xbox, "Amped 2," will feature the new snowboarding alternate - snowskate. Think skateboarding on the snow, with a small board rather than wheels under a skate-sized deck. "A snowskate, shorter and narrower than a snowboard, has a twin-tipped skateboard-sized board with a foam top sheet for grip. Some boards have a plastic, channeled base for stability and tracking on rails, and others have an even smaller board with edges attached under the upper deck. Free from the binding, riders can master the same tricks as skateboarders like kick flips, ollies, nose slides and exciting one-footed tweaks, stalls and rails."

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