Tony Hawk provides replace on new ‘Professional Skater’ recreation

Tony Hawk has given followers an replace on the way forward for the Professional Skater franchise.

The unique Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater recreation was launched in 1999 and launched a era to various music and skateboarding tradition. 4 extra Tony Hawk’ Professional Skater video games have been launched within the following years, alongside spin-off sequence Tony Hawk’s Underground. Plenty of standalone Tony Hawk’s skateboarding video games have been additionally launched, however there hasn’t been a brand new mainline entry within the franchise since 2015.

Now, Tony Hawk has revealed there are plans to have a good time the twenty fifth anniversary of the franchise.

Talking to Legendary Kitchen, Hawk admitted “one thing” was within the works however didn’t wish to give an excessive amount of away. “I want I might let you know extra, however I can let you know that I’ve been speaking to Activision once more, we’re engaged on one thing,” he mentioned.

“It is going to be one thing the followers will really respect,” he added.

In 2020, a remastered assortment of the primary two Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater video games was launched by Vicarious Imaginative and prescient and, based on Hawk, the plan was for the third and fourth video games to additionally get remastered. Nevertheless, Vicarious Imaginative and prescient grew to become a part of Blizzard in 2022, with the studio engaged on Diablo and the Professional Skater remaster undertaking was finally cancelled.

The identical yr Hawk revealed that after the merger, Activision Blizzard have been “searching for different builders” however nothing got here of it. “They simply didn’t actually belief anybody the way in which they did Vicarious,” he defined. “They took different pitches from different studios however they didn’t like something they heard, after which that was it.”

Final yr, Hawk revealed that the Professional Skater video games nearly didn’t occur as a result of he was already in talks with one other studio a few skateboarding recreation. “Once I noticed what Activision had, they’d a really early model of a skater doing methods. The best way it moved…to me it was intuitive, it was good. Straight away I began enjoying it, began doing methods — it was nearly prefer it was an extension of my physique to start out doing this,” he defined.

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