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The EA Skate Trilogy

February 21, 2010

It all began with EA Skate, back in September 2007, when Electronic Arts and Black Box release Skate, a innovative and ground breaking skateboard game for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Unlike the previous king of the skating games, Tony Hawk, Skate focussed on pure “experience” gameplay and opted for realism over style [...]

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Skate 2 Trick List

February 20, 2009

Those super spendid chaps over at MyCheats have a great list of all of the tricks that are possible in Skate 2.
I was wondering how to do those fingerflips, seatbelts and BS Shifty Tail Grabs!
Head over to the Skate 2 Trick List for more information and pages and pages of thumb murdering directions
ALMOST Skateboards MULLEN [...]

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Filmer Pack Fish Eye Lens Glitch

February 20, 2009

I just came across this video showing a great little tutorial for adding a fish eye effect to your EA Skate Reel videos.  I would have thought that Skate 2 would have come with a few more video editing effects that allowed for a better fish eye lens filter to be applied.
Perhaps this will be [...]

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Skate 2 is here

January 23, 2009

Today, being the 23rd of Jan 2009 is the official launch day of Skate 2 by Electronic Arts and Black Box.
Despite there being some bad press, sore user reviews of the demo and overall apathy at the inclusion of some Tony Hawk style features, Skate 2 still guarantees to be the best skateboarding console game [...]

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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 [...]

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Skate 2 Demo Review

January 13, 2009

Well.
The Skate 2 demo is here and I have spent a good few hours playing it (again and again) – so I present my thoughts and views on the successes and failures of this newest title from EA and Black Box.
I suppose we have to remember that this game is just the demo – and [...]

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Skate 2 multiplayer

December 24, 2008

Yet again EA Skate 2 is looking better and better each time one of these videos is released!
This video features a chat regarding Online play in Skate 2 and reveals the following tit-bits of information:
1.  You can start an online “freeskate” session where ever you want.  Pause the game – start the freeskate and find [...]

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Skate 2 soundtrack interview – Fort Knox Five

December 5, 2008

I have amazingly been given the chance to interview Fort Knox Five who have featured on several soundtracks of EA games in the past such as Facebreaker and NBA Street Homecourt and are one of bands on the soundtrack for the new Skate 2 game, released early 2009.
From their Bio:

The FORT KNOX FIVE is a [...]

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Video Of The Week #3

March 28, 2008

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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!

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