SSX is a snowboarding video game in the SSX series of video games from Electronic Arts. First revealed at the Spike Video Game Awards in 2010 under the working title SSX: Deadly Descents, the game's trailer appeared to show a much darker direction to the series than previous entries, though later footage returns to a lighter tone. SSX will include the use of real locations, rather than the fictional courses of past games. An SSX demo launched on February 21, 2012 on Xbox Live and a day later on PlayStation Network. The game was released on February 28, 2012 in Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay andVenezuela, March 1st in Australia and New Zealand, March 2nd in Europe, and will be released on March 15th in Japan.