The enduring cool of skateboarding games

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More than 25 years aft the archetypal Tony Hawk's Pro Skater enactment skateboarding games connected the map, developers are inactive uncovering caller ways to research skating successful video games, particularly successful 2025. Skateboarding fans are astir to person immoderate promising caller games to play, with Activision's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake releasing successful July and EA is acceptable to motorboat its online-only, free-to-play Skate revival this year.

In 2022, my workfellow Andrew Webster wrote that we're successful a aureate property for skateboarding games, and things haven't truly slowed down. So what is it that makes skateboarding truthful bully for video games, and allows truthful galore antithetic expressions of the athletics from antithetic studios?

"I deliberation skateboarding is 1 of those things that's conscionable ever cool," THPS 3 + 4 crippled manager Kurt Tillmanns tells The Verge. "It's an evergreen fantasy, successful some existent beingness and games. Being a skateboarder is simply a motion of what and who is cool." He says "there's a crushed that we're each successful awe of what these radical tin do." Part of what makes skateboarding chill is the music, fashion, and art, and video games fto radical acquisition that skateboarding culture, too, Tillmanns says.