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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:

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An Open Letter To Tony Hawk

May 30, 2009

Dear mr Hawk,
We have recently had the announcement of your new Tony Hawk Ride game and the new motion based controller that can be used to make the on screen skater perform tricks as you hop, flip and ollie the board in front of your TV.
Tony, what you fail to realize is that “gimmicks” and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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Why EA Skate 2 will suck

August 19, 2008

EA have not been wonderful and keeping franchises fresh and cool – just
look at the regularly churned out efforts of FIFA or Tiger Woods. They
never get that much better and generally just end up adding more little
tweaks and additions which never amount to much more than the previous
years version!
Here are my thoughts on why [...]

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