Sony Computer Entertainment America Teams up with ESPN for Winter X Games

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), a proud sponsor of ESPN's 12th annual Winter X Games, will enable attendees to experience their own extreme gaming experience at the world's premier action sporting event. While waiting for favorites of more than that 250 of the world's best athletes to compete in skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobile sports, fans can warm up with hot, new pulse-pounding games on PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) in PlayStation® tents.

Athletes and attendees will have the opportunity to play the latest PS3 and PSP titles at this year's X Games at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen/ Snowmass, Colorado on January 24-27. In addition, PlayStation will be hosting a hands-on game competition featuring last year's Winter X Games champions such as Aspen local, Gretchen Bleiler (2007 Winter X Games Gold and Olympic Silver medalist for snowboarding); Simon Dumont (2007 X Games Silver medalist for skiing); and Tucker Hibber (2007 X Games Gold Medalist for snowmobiling). Consumers and fans will have the opportunity to play Gran Turismo™5 Prologue, complete with 1080p graphics and authentic car physics, against some of their favorite X Games athletes.

The following PS3 software titles will be featured on-site:

• Gran Turismo™5 Prologue is a the latest iteration of the best-selling Gran Turismo™ racing franchise and is one of the most anticipated PS3 titles for 2008. GT5 Prologue continues to blur the line between simulation and reality and sets the bar to unprecedented heights of realism, quality of design and physics technology.

The following PSP software titles will be featured on-site:

• Pursuit Force™: Extreme Justice is the second chapter in this pulse-pounding adventure and driving franchise. This chapter increases the thrills with new multiplayer capabilities and promises to bring all of the excitement of a Hollywood blockbuster film.

• wipEout® PULSE is the next title from the multi-million selling wipEout franchise, offering fans fast-paced, futuristic, anti-gravity racing. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's (SCEE) award-winning Liverpool Studios, the iconic PlayStation racing franchise is racing back to the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) handheld entertainment system with a full tank of innovation, including new racetracks, ships, teams, game modes and new music tracks.

In the PlayStation VIP and athlete lounge, third party titles will also be making an appearance in including Burnout with the PLAYSTATION®Eye and the critically acclaimed EA Sports NFL Tour titles. Also, PSP's onsite will feature the new Internet Radio via AOL's SHOUTCast service, where users can choose from more than 20,000 stations of all musical genres.

SCEA is proud to support talented individuals who live life to the extreme within the sporting arena and contribute to the promotion of an active lifestyle.

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