Bear in mind Tony Hawk, skateboarder and star of a bunch of video video games that served as foundational experiences for you and your mates – assuming you grew up with goals of competing on the X Video games and having Rage In opposition to The Machine play at your medal successful afterparty? Properly, he is simply teased plans to commemorate the unique Professional Skater‘s twenty fifth birthday, apparently with assist from Activision.
Talking on Legendary Kitchen, a YouTube cooking present that is precisely the place you’d anticipate finding online game information (thanks VGC), Hawk was requested what’s subsequent for the Professional Skater franchise with that anniversary developing on September 29 and revealed that him and Activision are on speaking phrases once more.
“I want I might inform you extra, however I can inform you that I’ve been speaking to Activision once more, which is insanely thrilling. We’re engaged on one thing,” Hawk mentioned, over a plate of Chinese language hen salad and the spaghetti bolognese that you simply get at LA’s Chateau Marmont resort.
“That is the primary time I’ve mentioned that publicly,” he added, “I believe will probably be one thing the followers will really admire.” Hawk did additionally rule out the thought of it being contact lenses that make you skate like him, so there you go.
Again in 2022, Hawk claimed that plans for a follow-up recreation to 2020’s Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1+2 had been scrapped when improvement studio Vicarious Visions was merged with Activision Blizzard. “I want I might say that we had one thing within the works, however Vicarious Visions type of received disbanded…” Hawk mentioned then. “[Making 3+4 after 1+2], that was the plan. Even up till the discharge date of [1 + 2], we had been going 3 + 4. After which Vicarious received absorbed and so they had been in search of different builders after which… it was over.”
“The reality of it’s, they had been looking for somebody to do 3 + 4, however they simply didn’t actually belief anybody the best way they did Vicarious,” the Birdfellow continued, “So that they took pitches from different studios, like ‘what would you do with a THPS title?’ and so they didn’t like what they heard, after which that was it.”
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