A year ago, four guys left their high-level positions at established, well-known developers like Criterion, EA and Climax and founded their own four-man developing studio. One of those guys sold his house to found the company. That company was Hello Games. And today they announced their first title!

Joe Danger is a stunt racing motocross game expected to hit Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC approximately by Spring 2010. We don’t know much other than what can be spotted in the two very, very tiny screenshots they included in the release (whose alt text reads “Coin Dash” and “Race!”, probably the names of two game modes), but by using my eyes, I can describe it to you. It looks like Trials HD, but in an alternate universe where everything is built out of Super Mario Galaxy assets and where Trials HD was as much like Excitebike as everyone kept assuming it was.

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Maybe I’m a little biased because the managing director name-drops Super Monkey Ball in his biography, but everything about Hello Games seems to absolutely drip with good intentions and a desire to make fun, arcade-y games. I can get down with that.

Do you think Joe Danger look sick as hell? Let us know in the comments!


(via Hello Games)