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Video Of The Week #3
Hi! It looks like you are new here. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed or send me a message!An excellent, all out, balls to the grindstone, full speed technical smash of EA Skate action. It’s a little “Hawk” at times - but great stuff!
Continue reading...Amazon Skate and Proving Ground “Perfect Partner” Deal
27. March 2008
I am not sure how long this offer has been on the Amazon site but you can get EA Skate and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground for the Xbox 360 for the grand sum of £45.93 in the UK and $109.98 in the US! Considering I paid about £40 just for EA Skate when that came out [...]
Continue reading...Skate 2 Announcement Soon
14. March 2008
Avinash Bali of the Tech2 blog recently got to speak to some of the head honchos at EA’s meet the makers event in Singapore. Amongst other questions about forthcoming EA games, he dropped the question about the possibility of a Skate 2 announcement coming soon: I asked him what plans he had for Skate since (a) it [...]
Continue reading...Game Developers Conference 08 - where’s our Skate 2?
27. February 2008
The GDC 2008 in San Francisco finished just over a week ago and left us drooling after getting more concrete details for franchise updates such as Gears Of War 2 and Mario Kart Wii. But where was Skate 2? Where was the tech demo showing some new stuff like getting off the board and night/day weather effects? Ok, [...]
Continue reading...EA Skate Spots Guide
10. February 2008
Just came across this link for the EA Skate Spots Guide whilst lurking in the forums over at Skatethis.net. It’s a site dedicated to just showing the “Own the spots” areas within EA Skate. You can also upload your own footage or images of those spots! Nice site!
Continue reading...2 EA Skate Tips
9. February 2008
Although my 360 currently has the Red Ring of Death, my brain is still in skate mode and therefore I present 2 EA Skate Tips. 1. Get more speed If you were wondering how to jump that gap that you can’t quite make it over, or get top speed for doing a coffin down the hills, follow [...]
Continue reading...Official: Skate Outsells Tony Hawk 2-to-1
3. February 2008
Several titles did well against direct competitors. SKATE, a new and highly rated IP from our Black Box studio, outperformed an entrenched competitor. Despite the fact that we launched on three fewer platforms, we realized a 55% revenue share in North America. On current generation systems, SKATE outsold Tony Hawk nearly 2 to 1. So. There [...]
Continue reading...EA Skate Versus Guy Mariano Fully Flared
31. January 2008
As featured on Skatergeek before, Guy Mariano appears in another video made using EA Skate trying to replicate his part in the excellent Fully Flared Lakai Skateboarding DVD. Watch the original and then watch the EA Skate version. Let me know what you think!
Continue reading...Video Of The Week #2
28. January 2008
It’s a Monday, it’s the afternoon, it’s my coffee time - it must be time for me to post my Video Of The Week! This week, some cool action from Project 0mega. Especially love that last jump over the rail! And yes… it’s EA Skate again! If you can show me some good Tony Hawk footage you have [...]
Continue reading...Opinion: Tony Hawks Proving Ground Video
20. January 2008
If you read through this blog, you might be forgiven in thinking that I love EA Skate and hate any Tony Hawk games. This is not true. I grew up playing the Hawk Series and the roots of any skateboarding game are still firmly footed in the original games from Neversoft. I will admit, although I have played [...]
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28. March 2008
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