Company thinks physics can take video games to the next level

June 20, 2006

(AP) -- Carve a wrong turn in the deep powder of the video game ''Stoked Rider: Big Mountain Snowboarding'' and you'd better brace for an avalanche of swirling white snow engulfing everything as it crashes down the mountainside.



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