From the category archives:

tony hawk games

Tony Hawk Ride Is The Dogs

November 21, 2009

So, hawk ride has been out for a few days now and TVs have been broken, ornaments have been smashed and some poor adult has had their shins cracked by a flying skateboard controller.
Well… probably.
Here is a great review of the game and probably shows the market that it is aimed at:

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Ride Gameplay Video

November 9, 2009

I was just watching this Tony Hawk Ride video over at Joystiq and initially thought “cool”, which then turned to “oh” and moved rapidly on to “crap…”.
It seems that Activision and the venerable Mr Hawk have re-invented the Tony Hawk games, by just adding a new controller. The mile long grinds and cartoon, arcade [...]

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Ride Comes With Spongy Bits

August 23, 2009

News from Gamecom, the current games industry show, reveals that the Tony Hawk Ride board will come complete with sticky, spongy bits that will let you use the digital lolly-stick on a hardwood floor without it scratching it too much.
Think of the old “grab pads” and plastic rails from the 90’s and you will be [...]

Read the full article →

Skate 3 – 2010

July 15, 2009

Skate 2 has been with us for quite a while now and I suspect that even though EA have been cranking out mediocre DLC (downloadable crap) you are already geting a stiffie for Skate 3!
I guestimate that it will be out in the Fall (autumn) of next year 2010.
That should give enough time for EA [...]

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Not Worried By Project Natal

June 5, 2009

After the recent E3 video demo of the new Microsoft Natal controller for the Xbox360, Tony Hawk was asked if his new Tony Hawk Ride game and board are now obsolete.
Tony responded with a quip and a “No” stating that being able to perform grabs, and flips when you are standing on nothing is pretty [...]

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Ride

May 16, 2009

So, there has been an announcement about the new Tony Hawk game and also the new peripheral that he threatened to launch or design too.
Tony Hawk Ride is the new game from the famous skater and it features a deck that is used as the control method! The deck (still in prototype) appears to [...]

Read the full article →

5 ways Tony Hawk can beat EA Skate

January 26, 2009

Skate 2 has been here for a few days now and I think that the general consensus is that it is brilliant – but has a few issues too.
I am 100% sure that Tony Hawk will be playing Skate 2 and learning from it’s plus points and trying to think of how, now that he [...]

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Quits Neversoft

January 14, 2009

Xbox360Fanboy reports that Neversoft and our favorite “ollie the bum” skater, Tony Hawk have parted ways and Neversoft will no longer be developing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise of games!
Wow!  This is pretty big news.
After EA released Skate, they have pretty much dominated the skateboarding game market and have shown what a farce the [...]

Read the full article →

New Tony Hawk Game Coming Fall 2009

December 24, 2008

The LA Times has a nice interview with Mr Hawk himself about life, kids and his games over at their website.
In the interview, Tony reveals that he is deeply involved in the testing of his games and regularly receives updates from the developers to run through.
It’s nice to see that he takes such an active [...]

Read the full article →

Tony Hawk Skateboard Hero

October 17, 2008

It can be said that Activision is currently in the wings of the Skateboarding game genre after getting it’s ass well and truly kicked by EA and Black Box when they released Skate last year.
Activision is an established software house with an amazing back catalog of games and they are certainly not going to take [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries