APRIL 20, 2001

AMPED RADIO STREAMS THREE HOT NEW TRACKS ON XBOX.COM

Microsoft today released three songs from the high-energy extreme sports game Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding. Streaming media versions of the songs from indie band The Missing 23rd are now available on a special Amped Radio player at http://www.xbox.com.

The Missing 23rd's songs are just a few of the 150 tracks from many hot up-and-coming bands featured on the Amped soundtrack. More music tracks, as well as new screenshots, will be released prior to E3.

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is the first snowboarding game focused on freestyle riding. Rip the ultimate line on wide-open real mountains packed with jumps and rails. Hit the cliffs, jib the rainbow tree rail or take the hidden path through the trees for a different ride every time. Pull insane tricks in front of roaming camera crews to get your face on video and magazine covers. Get enough international exposure to become one of the world's snowboarding media superstars. And do it all to the music of over 150 core indy tracks.

Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft’s future-generation video game system that delivers new and unforeseen gameplay experiences. With more than three times the graphics performance of the newest generation of game systems, Xbox unleashes game designers’ creativity to produce games that are challenging, exhilarating, surprising and fun.

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