I'm really digging the minimalist vibes on this one. Understated, yet cogent. The subtle romantic mood is a nice touch, too.

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especially the E3 section, wow

Indeed. What else do you need. Just let the emotions invoked by the artwork overwhelm you. The mountains create a sense of sublime, the filter invites an atmosphere of surrealism that lends from the Dadaist school of thought. And then you have two characters which are in contrast to each other on many levels. For one the artist assumes that the viewer has an understanding of the color theory where magenta and green are the exact opposites creating a sense of harmony. Then you have the contrast of male and female. Finally the male to the right is in a static pose while the female provides a contrast in a highly dynamic pose which are in direct contrast to each other.

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Just beautiful, guys.

Today, EA Sports has taken yet another step into the realm of minimalist aesthetics, leaving us with the questions: what ARE the essentials? Is mainstream site design too busy to communicate the essence of said sites? Most importantly, can we cut away more?

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I love how the 'More News' button takes you to the same page with only the same one article listed, masterfully demonstrating how human urges to learn, when denied, tease our very beings, exposing our brief desires as fragile and dependent impulses to discover more about the universe we are captive in.

This thread is hilarious.

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Also known as the guy that always pisses gondee off with his huge avatars.

EA Sports has responded. The answer is: we can certainly cut away more. More, as in, all of it. We've reached the summit, friends.

http://ea.com/ssx

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*please tell me they are just renovating it or moving it and not permanently removing it*

What an astounding piece of modern art - Less is more. This new installation from EA is nothing from what I expected, literary. The feeling of entering a space which doesnt even exist gives you a sense of being transported into a different state of reality. Use your eyes to filter the screen and you'll see what lies beyond imagination.

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Also known as the guy that always pisses gondee off with his huge avatars.

It's been two and a half years since SSX came out Driver. That's usually around the time that EA starts pulling the plug on stuff like webpages. Another year or two and we can expect the online servers to go down as well.

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This is sad.

The UK site is still up:

http://www.ea.com/uk/ssx

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Seeing that page reminds me of all the awesome DLC we thought we would get....

And then the lack of it that we actually got.

Mt. Eddie was awesome.

Where was the follow up.

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Midian: Real authentic stuff is the pizza the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles eat. Fast, cheap and sloppy
Midian: Like NA
CurryKing: I wanted the title to be: This image is in no way grooming you for Thor's mighty hammer

I think we got a pretty decent amount all in all. Refresh my memory if I'm remembering it fuzzy, but we had 3 major packs right?

1) Throwback Costumes (+ Assorted small level bumps and changes at no cost)
2) Mt. Eddie
3) 3,2,1 GO!

Batty mentioned the "Year of SSX" ala the "Year of Burnout", but that was just Batty being optimistic - how many games ever get a full year of DLC? SSX got around six months of updates and bugfixes. Pretty decent for the game all in all. I was expecting one big DLC ala Mt. Eddie and that would be it. Instead we got 3 or so. I'm content with it.

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Don't forget freeride, gondee! But yeah, I assumed they dissolved the team quicker than they hoped to because despite the sales, online didn't seem to take off like they had hoped (see: that darn 50k players badge ). We got some great stuffTM, though! All thingsTM that the fans had been asking for.

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