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Neversoft Taken Off Tony Hawk Franchise?
That's a little rumour Giant Bomb are putting out there. Apparently Activision, as part of their pledge to innovate with the next instalments of the long-running franchise, have taken the series creators (and sole developers for the last decade) off the property, and have handed the reins over to Robomodo, a new studio consisting of former EA Chicago staffers. A studio who are currently "working on a project for Activision".
Giant Bombcast 06-03-2008 [Giant Bomb, via VG247]
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Tony Hawk Working With Activision To Save His Series
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater? Bwah? Can't remember it. The pure joy of EA's Skate has wiped clean all memory of manual combo runs, ill-advised Jackass cameos and flying toilets. And not just for me, for a lot of people. So Activision and Neversoft are going back to the drawing board, and they're bringing Tony Hawk with them. The man, that is, who's working closely with the game's developers so they can bring "new thrills" to the stale, ageing series. They're calling it the "Tony Hawk Innovation Plan". Only this year's annual instalment in the series will tell if it makes a lick of difference.Executive Suite: Tony Hawk leaps to top of financial empire [USA Today]
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Do These Gaming Franchises Need To Retire?
The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub has put together a dead pool of some of the video game industry's longest running, longest in the tooth franchises. It's not a bet necessarily on who will die, but who should die, sequentially speaking. Topping the list? Pac-Man. Sure, the excellent Pac-Man Championship Edition gets a pass and Nintendo would do right to bring Pac-Man Vs. to WiiWare, but we could certainly do without another Pac-Man World. More »
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Two For One Special On Stupid Game Crimes
While most of the gaming world focuses on CES, Game Politics patrols the streets, keeping an eye open for video game related crime. Today they've uncovered not one but two different recent criminal outings blamed the influence of gaming violence.
First we have Gaston County North Carolina, where three 19 year-olds went on an arson spree, setting fire to eight cars and one vacant home before the police finally stopped the madness. The reason behind the suspects' burning ambitions? Postal 2. No really, Postal 2.
Police say three Gaston County teens—Sean Jones, David Ellington and Paul Jarrell charged with setting eight cars and one vacant home on fire—got the idea from a video game, "Postal 2".Personally I am hoping this was some sort of typo, and what they meant to say was, "got the idea after being forced to play through Postal 2," as I can definitely see that being the logical result of such trauma. More »
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Wii Fit Board Might Work For Tony Hawk, Might Not
You may or may not be interested in Wii Fit, but let's face it, no one wants to admit to having a step aerobics board in their bachelor pad. On the other hand, a skateboarding simulator...that could almost not get you laid. In an interview with Eurogamer, this from the Bird Man himself:
I think it's possible to incorporate the Wii Fit board into one of our games, but it would change the control scheme dramatically and we'd have to figure out how to make that work. So I don't know yet.My guess is that the game would need to be simplified a bit to make this happen, but why not? Do it, Tony (and all the developers who actually do 99.999% of the work).
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Week in Games: Beautiful Katamari Edition
My game purchases this week will be woefully small as not only am I staying with a friend in NYC who is a non-gamer and therefore has no consoles, but I am leaving on Wed. for LA to go to E for All. But one thing I will definitely be picking up is Beautiful Katamari just so I can hold it in my hand and wish I could play it. What's on your must have purchase list this week?
Beautiful Katamari (X360)
The Prince and The King are back for more Katamari rolling goodness.
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East (PC)
Now with more Orcs.
Fury (PC)
PvP to your heart's content.
Crash of the Titans (PSP)
Crash is back and making waves on the PSP.
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (X360, PS2, WII, PS3, DS)
My kid can ollie over your honor roll student.
Spider-Man 3 (PSP)
Trapped in the web of love.
Victorious Boxers: Revolution (WII)
Beat the crap out of people while simultaneously wearing your arms out.
SWAT: Target Liberty (PSP)
Take out terrorists threatening NYC.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition (PS3)
Together again for the first time... on the PS3
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (WII)
All hail Bridget.
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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Demo Hits Live
With EA's Skate for the Xbox 360 heading to retail shelves tomorrow, Activision has gone ahead and put a playable demo of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground up on Xbox Live Marketplace for your enjoyment. Measuring up at a hefty 1.08GB, the demo allows you to tour Philadelphia and try out some of the latest installment's new moves. With both a Skate demo and this one now available, it is time to see which flavor of next-gen skateboarding you favor. Me? I'm still firmly in Tony's camp, having been relatively unimpressed by Skate's flickit control scheme. Your results may vary.
Demo: Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Demo [Major Nelson's Blog - Thanks Travis!]
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Activision gave me a lengthy rundown of Tony Hawk's proving ground here in Leipzig, Germany (Europe). I didn't get my hands on the game, but got a really nice tour of the new features, like the promising personal skate park creation, which can be shared with your friends in online multiplayer. But I'm not going to run through all of it. Instead we're focusing on what I consider the two most incredible innovations: a powerful video creation tool and hoodie physics that resemble Jabba the Hutt's stiffy (not that we'd know).
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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, Incredible Video Creation and Erection Hoodies
Activision gave me a lengthy rundown of Tony Hawk's proving ground here in Leipzig, Germany (Europe). I didn't get my hands on the game, but got a really nice tour of the new features, like the promising personal skate park creation, which can be shared with your friends in online multiplayer. But I'm not going to run through all of it. Instead we're focusing on what I consider the two most incredible innovations: a powerful video creation tool and hoodie physics that resemble Jabba the Hutt's stiffy (not that we'd know).
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TRL Germany Live from GC07
MTV's TRL Germany took over Sony's booth today at the Games Convention, playing live videos on a giant screen overlooking Sony's pool area to a live crowd with Germany's version of Carson Daly.
I was only able to catch a chunk of it, but the audience seemed to love checking out the day's top videos while getting a chance to be on live MTV. At some point the host brought Tony Hawk up onto the stage to talk about video games and his propensity to injure himself. The segment was short, but in it we learned that Tony Hawk has four sons, that they love video games. They can kick Hawk's ass at Guitar Hero but not at his namesake video game. He also said that only one of his sons seem to display the same blatant disregard for self-preservation that helped propel Hawk's career to superstardom. That son, Hawk said, needs to have be watched closely.
Hawk ended the segment by hopping up on a skateboard and propelling himself off the stage and through the crowd, a small crowd of body guards running in his wake. About ten feet away from the stage Hawk popped off the board, talked to a fan and walked from the hall.
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Guitar Hero III 360 Demo With Tony Hawk
Well if this doesn't sell Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, nothing will. Activision has announced that the Xbox 360 version of Tony Hawk's latest magical skateboard adventure will ship on October 9th with a five song demo of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The same demo will be hitting Xbox Live two weeks later, but 14 days sure is a lot of missed practice time, isn't it? The demo will take place on the Desert Rock Tour stage and will include the floowing tracks:
Lay Down (by Priestess)
Even Flow (by Pearl Jam)
The Metal (by Tenacious D)
Hit Me with your Best Shot (as made famous by Pat Benatar)
Rock You like a Hurricane (as made famous by Scorpions)
Mmmm, early Tenacious D. The other songs are nice to of course, but The D! Smart move, Activision. Very smart move.
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Where Did It All Start?
Sure, we know that developer Neversoft never stops with those Tony Hawk games. And now that they've got the Tony Hawk license until 2015, it doesn't look like they'll be letting up anytime soon. But, how did the dev snag the rights? Says Neversoft's Scott Pease:
We gave him the call; Neversoft cooked up a more polished demo, which had an actual skateboarder and two tricks. We called Tony in, and all the Activision suits assembled in the conference room... Tony just comes rolling in with his ripped cargo pants, sits down at the table and suit after suit gets up and whips out revenue charts and so on. Tony's just gotta sit there the whole time. At the end, we wheel in the Neversoft demo and, since Tony was a gamer growing up, he was totally into it. Then we didn't hear from him over a month. I think he was talking to some other companies.
Nintendo even, apparently! Well, it all worked out for the best. 2015? That's so teh future. A long, long future.
Neversoft Interview [Next-Gen]
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How many times have you been playing Tony Hawk's and pulled off some killer moves that no one would actually believe you did and wanted to make a video of it just to prove it? Ok, well I haven't either, but I'm sure someone has and for them, this will be a dream come true. Tony Hawk's Proving Ground will feature a new video editor that will allow you to record all those sweet ollies and Madonna's for posterity and share them with all your friends. This will be a great feature for those that can actually pull it off, but mine would end up being a series of clips of my skater smashing into walls and being thrown off the board, breaking every bone in his virtual body. On second thought, with the right music, that could be really cool...
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Video Editor Trailer
How many times have you been playing Tony Hawk's and pulled off some killer moves that no one would actually believe you did and wanted to make a video of it just to prove it? Ok, well I haven't either, but I'm sure someone has and for them, this will be a dream come true. Tony Hawk's Proving Ground will feature a new video editor that will allow you to record all those sweet ollies and Madonna's for posterity and share them with all your friends. This will be a great feature for those that can actually pull it off, but mine would end up being a series of clips of my skater smashing into walls and being thrown off the board, breaking every bone in his virtual body. On second thought, with the right music, that could be really cool...
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The Tony Hawk series holds a special place in my heart. For one, at least a quarter of the music on my iPod is tracks I've discovered as I've played the games over the years, but more importantly it has allowed me to continue skating after my massive 6'6" frame snapped my last skateboard clear in half, signaling the end of my extreme sports phase aside from occasional Mountain Dew binges. I started losing interesting when THUG came out, and while Project 8 added in some nifty new features it failed to hold my interest for more than a day or two. I sat in on an E3 demo of the new title in the series, Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds, and with EA's Skate on the horizon it might be the last chance the franchise gets to prove it still has what it takes to remain king of the skate park.
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Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds Eyes On
The Tony Hawk series holds a special place in my heart. For one, at least a quarter of the music on my iPod is tracks I've discovered as I've played the games over the years, but more importantly it has allowed me to continue skating after my massive 6'6" frame snapped my last skateboard clear in half, signaling the end of my extreme sports phase aside from occasional Mountain Dew binges. I started losing interesting when THUG came out, and while Project 8 added in some nifty new features it failed to hold my interest for more than a day or two. I sat in on an E3 demo of the new title in the series, Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds, and with EA's Skate on the horizon it might be the last chance the franchise gets to prove it still has what it takes to remain king of the skate park.
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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
I saw quite a bit of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground at Activision's pre-E3 event earlier this week. Unfortunately, I can't say a thing about it until the first day of E3. Fortunately, Activision is under no such embargo and they just put a trailer up for their latest entry into the suddenly competitive genre of skateboarding games.
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Once More Into The Breach, Tony Hawk
Yearly updates to the Tony Hawk videogame skating franchise continue, as Activision has announced the latest in the series, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. How will gamers flog the equine corpse with this entry? By focusing on character customization and the (ew) lifestyle aspects of professional skateboarding. Tony Hawk's Cribs? Sounds like it. More »
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