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EA Skate It – Wii Balance Board Feature Trailer

October 7, 2008

EA Skate It for the Nintendo Wii is coming soon.  The video above shows a few tricks from the game and the associated controller/balance board techniques used to achieve them.
The video does make the game look pretty good – although I feel that overall the idea is flawed and the Wii Balance Board is only [...]

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New Skate It Trailer emerges

October 2, 2008

EA have busted out a new trailer for their up coming Skate IT game for the Nintendo Wii and DS.

It shows some nice looking gameplay – but doesn’t show the overweight nerd on his Wii Fit board, crouching and hurting his knees alot as he wiggles through the semi-destroyed San Vanelona city scape.
It remains [...]

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Wii Skate It impressions

September 5, 2008

I just scanned the mini impression of Skate IT for the Nintendo Wii over at ArsTechnica, which features the use of the WiiFit Balance Board as a control method.
To say this takes a little while to get used to is something of an understatement. Skate It just doesn’t pull the execution off well enough [...]

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Tony Hawk Motion Details

September 1, 2008

As predicted, the new Tony Hawk game for the Nintendo DS will feature a “motion based control system” – and they are calling it “Tony Hawk Twisty Turny”.
Not really. It will be called Tony Hawk Motion and will feature an add-on most likely plugged into the gameboy port on the DS to allow for [...]

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Tony Hawk Motion

August 20, 2008

DS Fanboy release the news that the next Nintendo DS Tony Hawk game will be called Tony Hawk Motion – if a submission for a “child friendly rating” is anything to go by.
DS Fanboy also remind us that the developers told everyone that the game would “utilize new technology not yet seen on the DS”. [...]

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Skate It DS

August 8, 2008

More information about Skate IT DS is arriving from IGN.
It seems that there will be a picture of a skateboard in the lower portion of the screen which is used to swipe the moves on.
No doubt the shoulder buttons on the Nintendo DS will be used to perform grab tricks and the buttons will be [...]

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Skate 2 and Skate It Confirmed

May 12, 2008

The press release we have ALL been waiting for has finally hit the streets in the usual EA “all – and nothing” style.
Skate 2 is coming! 
The facts as we know it are:

Skate2 will be developed for the PS3 and Xbox 360
Skate2 is “in development” – no firm information as yet
Skate It will be released for [...]

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Skate Coming to Wii and DS?

April 3, 2008

The internet monster that is Kotaku is running a post that refers to a (now removed under threat of ninja-lawyer-death) mention by EA via IGN that a product called “Skate It” is in the works.
Skate It will be a “spin off” game for the Nintendo DS and Wii with the possiblity of support for the [...]

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Skate DS

October 11, 2007

Whilst Skate is available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Mobile(!) platforms, those of us that perfer a bit of handheld gaming have to rely on the older Tony Hawk fanchise to get our fix.
The Nintendo DS is the perfect platform to port EA Skate to.  With it’s touch screen capability, you could easily implement [...]

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