Kotaku: Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk's HD "Probably" Won't Have the Original Soundtracks

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:20:00 EST

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The best thing about the first two Tony Hawk games, better than the games themselves, were their soundtracks. They were amazing. If you were hoping some of those standout tracks would be in the upcoming HD re-release, though, don't get your hopes up. More »

Tony Hawk's New Game is Tony Hawk HD

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:58:00 EST

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Having teased such an announcement earlier in the week, at tonight's Spike VGAs skate legend Tony Hawk made it official: after a short hiatus in 2011, his series will be back in 2012 with Tony Hawk HD. More »

Hope You're Ready for a New Tony Hawk Game

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:00:00 EST

Activision's Tony Hawk franchise took its first ever year off in 2011 because it had been run into the ground. Too many games in too many years with not enough new ideas. With the Spike Video Game Awards coming up, it appears that one year off is all Activision felt it could afford. More »

Tony Hawk Says There's A New Tony Hawk Game

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:00:00 EDT

After http://kotaku.com/#!5756340/tony-hawk-music-games-get-the-year-off-at-activision">taking 2011 off due to poor sales, it sounds like there will another Hawk game. "We're going to do something probably for next year but I can't give too much away," the skater said recently. [Pixelated Geek via GameSpot via VG247] More »

Tony Hawk, Music Games Get The Year Off At Activision

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:10:00 EST

There will be no skateboarding games, no music games coming from Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero publisher Activision in 2011. That means no DJ Hero 3 to play and no Tony Hawk games to stand on this year. And, oh yeah, no Guitar Hero games. More »

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Was A Long, Long Time Ago

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:30:00 EST

Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, travels back in time to the 1990's while defending the abysmal sales of the latest Tony Hawk game, Shred. [image: Getty] More »

Skateboarding 'Has Run Its Course' As A Top Video Game Format

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST

The heyday of skateboarding games is past, the head of EA, the company that makes Tony Hawk rival franchise Skate, told Kotaku in an interview this week. More »

Activision Hasn't Bailed On Tony Hawk: Shred Yet

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:40:00 EST

As much as Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops is a success, the company's other recent franchise release, Tony Hawk: Shred, is not. But Activision isn't giving up on Shred, even in the face of pitiful sales. More »

Can Video Of Tony Hawk Shred Make You A Fan?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:00:00 EDT

You may be older than the target market for Activision and Robomodo's next Tony Hawk game, but perhaps video of Tony Hawk Shred will bring out the kid in you. More »

The Next Tony Hawk Game Is For Kids

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:30:00 EDT

Recently in New York it was Gabe who showed me the next Tony Hawk video game, Tony Hawk Shred. Gabe did a great job, especially for someone who would be happy to be paid in toys. Gabe is seven. More »

First Screens Of Tony Hawk: Shred Show Its Shredding Side

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:30:00 EDT

Tony Hawk: Shred will put your Tony Hawk: Ride skateboard controller to use, once again, later this year, letting players skateboard and snowboard while balancing on pricey plastic peripherals. This is what Tony Hawk: Shred will look like. More »

Tony Hawk's Tony Hawk: Shred Outed By Tony Hawk

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:00:59 EDT

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk may have just officially sent the Activision PR team into a 720-degree tizzy, tweeting about Tony Hawk: Shred, quite possibly the more shred-tastic follow-up to the skateboard-as-controller experiment Tony Hawk: Ride. More »

Shaun White Takes On Tony Hawk

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST

Ubisoft and two-time Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White kick the Tony Hawk franchise while its down with the announcement of Shaun White Skateboarding. More »

New Tony Hawk, With Board, Is Coming In Late 2010

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:20:02 EST

Activision Blizzard isn't going to let poor reviews of Tony Hawk Ride get them down. Sticking to its schedule of annual skateboard releases, the company announced today that it would release a new Tony Hawk game, using the board peripheral. More »

Tony Hawk, Robomodo Commence Work On "Next Project"

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:30:00 EST

Tony Hawk: Ride was a mess. And that's putting it kindly. That hasn't stopped the skating legend from working with the game's developers again, however, announcing today the roots of their "next project". More »

Tony Hawk: Play Ride and I'll Be Your Friend

Brian Crecente — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:00:43 EST

Tony Hawk seemed to take matters into his own hands last night, hopping onto Twitter to get people to play his latest skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Ride. More »

Tony Hawk Still Optimistic About More Ride, Future Board Support

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:40:00 EST

Skateboarding hero Tony Hawk is still positive on the possibility of more Tony Hawk Ride and more skateboard controller support, despite harsh critical reception and cool initial sales of the Robomodo developed game. More »

Tony Hawk Ride Grinds Up 114,000 In Sales

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:40:23 EST

Activision and Robomodo's peripheral-based reboot of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise had what may be considered a disappointing first month on the market, selling 114,000 units in the U.S. in November, according to the NPD Group. More »

Tony Hawk "Very Proud" Of Tony Hawk: Ride

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:30:00 EST

Tony Hawk: Ride is not only one of the most disappointing games of 2009, it's easily the most disappointing game in a series that for the past 5 years has specialised in disappointment. More »

Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:30:00 EST

As seen on GameSpy. More »

We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST

Robomodo, the developers behind Tony Hawk: Ride, have posted some photos showing off the prototype controller used as a testbed before the final design was nailed down. More »

Tony Hawk Keen On Kelly Slater Revival

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:00 EST

In an interview with GameSpot, skating legend and video game staple Tony Hawk has spoken fondly, and none-too-subtly, of his wishes to see another Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer game. Using the Tony Hawk: Ride controller, of course. More »

Tony Hawk Devs Working On New Board Peripheral Game?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:20:00 EST

Activision may be sending Tony Hawk: Ride out to die at retail, but the mega-publisher at least sees a little more potential in the game's skateboard peripheral if comments from Robomodo boss David Michicich are anything to go by. More »

Reviewer: Opportunity To Review New Tony Hawk Early Limited To Three Hours On A Saturday

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:46 EST

Game publishers are under no obligation to provide access to games early so that reviews can be online by launch. For big titles, usually they find a way. Sometimes, one reviewer found with the new Tony Hawk, it's complicated. More »

Tony Hawk To Vert at GamesCom

Brian Crecente — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Former pro-skater and current video game namesake Tony Hawk plans to demonstrate Activision's upcoming motion-based skating title at next week's Gamescom. More »

Tony Hawk: Ride Only Launching In Three Territories (In 2009)

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:30:00 EDT

It was announced during Activision's earnings call earlier today that the upcoming Tony Hawk: Ride will only be released in three territories in 2009. For everyone else, it's a 2010 game. More »

ActiBlizz Confirms Tony Hawk, Bond For 2010, Dances Around Diablo

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:40:37 EDT

Activision Blizzard execs listed a bunch of new games for 2010 during a conference call today but declined to be anything other than cagey on the topic of Diablo III. More »

Tony Hawk: Ride Is Not Cheap

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:30:00 EDT

Tony Hawk: Ride is coming with an enormous plastic skateboard peripheral. If you were worried that would make it cost a bit more, you should know that it might make it cost a lot more. More »

Tony Hawk iPhone Is (Sort Of) Real

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:30:00 EDT

That suspicious-looking video of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on iPhone from the other day has been confirmed as being real. Sort of. In a roundabout way. Let me explain. More »

New Tony Hawk Game "With A Twist" Revealed This Week

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:40:56 EDT

The newest skateboarding game to bear the Tony Hawk name will be revealed to the public on GameTrailers TV this week. In Mr. Hawk's own words, "It's a whole new deal." More »

New Tony Hawk Detailed At E3 2009

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:40:00 EDT

Will the king of skateboarding video games make a comeback in 2009? Activision plans on delivering new details on the next Tony Hawk game during E3 2009. More »

Tony Hawk Creators No Longer Making Tony Hawk Games

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:30:00 EST

Few months back, there was a rumour Neversoft - creators and sole developers of the core Tony Hawk series - had been taken off the franchise by Activision and replaced by startup Robomodo. More »

Next Tony Hawk As Close To Real Skating As You'll Ever Come

Mike Fahey — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:40:00 EST

Tony Hawk continues to hype the living hell out of the next game in Activision's skateboarding series, now claiming it will be the closest you will ever come to skateboarding in a video game. More »

Tony Hawk Says Next Tony Hawk "More Realistic, More Interactive"

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST

After the disappointing Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, Activision gave the series a much needed sabbatical, thanks to accrued vacation time. Hawk says the series will return in next Fall with a "whole new direction." More »

Activision: Next Tony Hawk Is Hands-Free, New Bond, Call of Duty Due 2009

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:40:42 EST

Executives from Activision are dishing dirt on the company's upcoming releases at an in-game advertising summit hosted by Massive. That means more Call of Duty, more James Bond and confirmation on Tony Hawk's reinvented controls. More »

That Xbox 360 Phone? Sh*t's Fake, Yo

Owen Good — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Via Reader Carlos T., here's Soulja Boy coppin' to the hoax. He never had an Xbox 360 Sidekick. Full confession comes at timestamp 1:00 of the above video. Caution, the whole thing looks like it's an ad for some Tony Hawk-branded Sidekick whateverthhell. Yay. We all got strung along for a free ad, but a hip-hop artist sold out to carry water for a skateboarder, so, that takes some of the sting out of being played like a fiddle for viral marketing. Twice.Soulja Boy's "Tony Hawk Special Edition Sidekick LX [YouTube] More »

New Tony Hawk Game To Employ Motion-Controlled Peripheral?

Luke Plunkett — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:30:00 EDT

More from the "marketing leaks". And more Activision stuff. There are several listings on the site for what is probably the next "current-gen" Tony Hawk title, which has three working titles: Amplitude, Adrenaline and, awesomely, Tony Hawk's Huck Jam. The game is slated to appear on 360, PS3 and PC, and will make use of motion controls via a custom board controller/peripheral (maybe this one?). Great, more hunks of plastic for the living room floor! Can't wait. More »

Neversoft Taken Off Tony Hawk Franchise?

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:20:00 EDT

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". More »

Tony Hawk Working With Activision To Save His Series

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:20:00 EDT

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. More »

Do These Gaming Franchises Need To Retire?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:40:27 EST

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 »