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Joy Ride MIA, but Microsoft insists 'BigPark's vision' will come to life in 2010

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 2nd 2010 5:30PM

It appears that Joy Ride has been wiped as cleanly as possible from Xbox.com. Its game page is missing, and even the link to it from MS's E3 page has been removed. Joystiq contacted Microsoft for clarification and a spokesperson responded, "We're excited to bring BigPark's vision to life in 2010. However, we have nothing further to announce at this time." We followed up, specifically asking if "BigPark's vision" was still Joy Ride, if the game was currently in development and if it'd be shown at E3. The company has yet to respond to the request for clarification.

The latest on Joy Ride's status after it missed its 2009 launch was that it was going to be released sometime in 2010. Microsoft purchased Joy Ride developer BigPark last year and announced the kart racer with Avatar support at E3 2009. We'll update if Microsoft decides to let us see what's going on under the hood.

[Thanks, Pibs]

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Tags: bigpark, joy-ride, Kinect-Joy-Ride, microsoft, xbox, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (65)

Really wanted to play this game...hope it still comes out

Same here, I had been looking forward to that game since last year.

Yeah me too.

Me 3!

Got to say the big selling point for me wanting it was that it was free. Wish MS put more free titles on XBLA.

Me too. I'm hoping they'll have an update for us at E3 at least.

they're waiting to see what features they can bite from ModNation

... and then take the parts from the Arcade machines in the XBL Arcade Room to construct the karts.

More like what features they can add with Natal to this game. While both are close in resemblance. In all accounts MS is going to use this bring Natal into arcade racers.

Even though the fanboys will use that as massive flame fuel, i would loved to see this game borrow from ModNation.

"they're waiting to see what features they can bite from ModNation"

To improve upon them and make them better no doubt.

And i'll bet money the game loads faster . . . . lol

Hoping they release some more info at E3, maybe a release date?

Funny. I was just thinking about this game this morning and did a search on it. Those pages were definitely working this morning when I saw them. It's kinda of weird that they would just delete it like that this afternoon.

Which one was working? I checked the E3 page linked in this article 2 days ago and the Joy Ride link was not working, as it is now.

Yayyyy a free game.

Right?

Right? Orrrrr sarcasm? I can't tell. I'd be pumped if it actually manages to come out for free. I really would love to pick up either Blur or Modnation Racers, but I've recently purchased Uncharted 2, FFXIII, & Alan Wake so I'm having issues justifying another purchase right now. I'm liking the new entries into the kart racing genre!

No, I'm pretty sure they said this would be free when they announced it. Microtransactions and all that.

I think you get one giant canyon level to start with, and then when they release more levels you have to buy them.

Microsoft & free ? HAHA never heard that one before !

@Tabarnacos

Hence "microtransactions."

Yeah your right - similar to something like Battlefield Heroes.

it was announced as free. it better damn well be free. the XBL page said it was free until that page was removed...?

I'm guessing that this game wasn't panning out the way Mircosoft had hoped so they put BigPark on some Natal crap.

i never saw this game as a great idea. it seemed like something don mattrick tacked on cause he has stake in big park.

....what?

don mattrick is one of the founders of big park. don mattrick is also the person that took peter moore's job. within the first week (or so) of don mattrick's employment at microsoft, microsoft acquired big park. do you follow me now or do i need to hold your hand the entire way?

Sorry, I thought you were talking like an indian. I also thought you were referring to Big Park as a place.

If you ask me the Wii doesn't really compete with the 360 and PS3. The majority of proper gamers with consoles will have a 360/PS3.

Yes, because obviously this game comes out on the Wii. From Microsoft.

That was a reply to a comment, the comment i replied to has been deleted... i don't get why that was separated away from it :S

I'm pretty surprised by this. I thought they were pretty excited for this one and were going to try to fight it out with Mod Nation. I guess Sony may have dazed them in the end.

Mario Kart totally ripped off Modnation Racers. What a sad knockoff franchise.

its just a sad modnation racers knockoff

Except this was announced before Modnation?

They were announced within days of each other, if not the same day . . .

It's true, Modnation Racers is the first Kart racing game ever. Look it up.

@Granger
The Microsoft conference was a whole day before Sony's. It's clear they used this time to make Modnation, it's a blatent copy.

The only thing that's clear is they're both blatant rip-offs of Blur.

@Granger

They are obviously rip-offs of Hello Kitty.

Rock N Roll Racing was the first and last video game ever in the world.

Announced within 24 hours of each other.

Good thing FASA and Ensemble no longer exist, they probably would have gotten in the way of BigPark development :\

I know your comment was sarcasm... but still... a bit below the belt.

Damn MS for axing their good studios. WTF were they thinking?

Ensemble.. :( I own all there games but one of the AoE3 expansions. I WANT THEM BACK!! :(

@Paulo:

Pure Rage. 10/10

That will be 10x better no doubt . . . .

60$ < Free

F

Please see me after class, Mark.

He said free is better than a $60 charge and he gets an F?

What class is this, Capitalism 101?

How about Algebra 101?

:/

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