Snowboarding fans can now get stoked as Destineer and developer BongFish have announced that January 20, 2009 is the official launch date of Stoked, the open-world, backcountry snowboarding video game exclusively for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Stoked is developed by snowboarders, for snowboarders and offers five huge, open-world mountains, dynamic and changing weather patterns, the participation of X-Games champion Travis Rice as well as some of the most respected names in the snowboarding community worldwide.

“Thanks to the input from the gaming and snowboarding communities about what they would want in a video game, Stoked has really captured the wide-open thrill of backcountry snowboarding,” said Paul Rinde, CEO of Destineer. “We set out to create an authentic snowboard video game experience and Stoked is primed to deliver just that in January 2009.”

To truly capture the high-flying and exhilarating abandon and attitude of professional back-country boarding, Stoked was developed in conjunction with world famous snowboarding movie production house Absinthe Films, who has created some of the most progressive and cutting-edge snowboarding films to date.

For more information, please visit the newly updated Stoked website at www.gettingstoked.com to find the latest videos, images and news.