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Skate It

May 22, 2009
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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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Skate City Heroes

September 23, 2008

Your best skating buddy has been kidnapped by Virus, your arch-nemesis, and only you can save him! Become a skateboard master as you zip between hover cars, grind on rails, and pull sick trick combos throughout a futuristic metropolis. Hidden bonuses and items will help you impress the evil captor in order to free your [...]

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Skate It Balance Video

September 9, 2008

Head over to WiiFanboy to watch a video from EA on how the balancing and tricking will work on the new EA Skate It for the Nintendo Wii.
I still think this game will suck big time and will result in muchos broken Wii Fit Boards – but hey.. I might be wrong.
You know how your [...]

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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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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 It trailers emerge

June 26, 2008

It seems like the Skate it game for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii will be quite interesting. It seems to feature skating in a city destroyed by an earthquake or giant Japanese lizard monster. As we all know, even the smallest kerb causes our favorite EA Skate characters to bite the pavement [...]

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Skate It WILL use balance board

June 26, 2008

Kotaku have had hands-on fun with the new EA Skate It game for the Nintendo Wii at a recent Electronic Arts event.
It uses the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board as an input device (controller) to play the game, including being able to push too. There were a few niggles over the design and the [...]

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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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