Gaming
New Tony Hawk Pro Skater Game Is In Development, The Man Himself Confirms
If you have been playing video games for some time, you probably remember the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, one of the best skateboarding games series ever released. The franchise has unfortunately fallen into obscurity in recent times but it looks like it’s going to be making a glorious comeback soon.
Tony Hawk himself has confirmed a few hours ago that a new game of the series is indeed in development with a new video posted on his Instagram profile featuring skater Rob Wootton parodying the series’ unique character selection screen. Unfortunately not much more is said about the game but we will have more details soon.
While very welcome, the confirmation of a new Tony Hawk Pro Skater game isn’t exacty surprising. The existance of the game was accidentally revealed by Tony Hawk’s caterer Joe Youkhan not too long ago with a couple of photos that show the Tony Hawk 5 title on a screen. The photos have been promptly removed but damage had already been done at that point.
The first game of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series has been released on consoles back in 1999. The game developed by Neversoft has managed to become a huge success thanks to its unique gameplay experience which allowed players to perform and combine freely aerials, flips and grinds to score huge amount of points. The game’s Career Mode is also an excellent feature which gives players different objectives to complete in each of the game’s stages, ultimately increasing the game’s variety.
The original Tony Hawk Pro Skater has also received an HD remake back in 2012, featuring updated graphics and more. Unfortunately the game has received a mixed reception due to some design choices and an overall flawed execution of the concept, mostly related to the fact that the HD remake hasn’t been developed by Neversoft but by Robomodo, which approached development differently from the original creators of the series.
Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.
According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.
More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.
Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!
Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.
Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.
IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.
Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.
Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?
Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.
Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).
How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?
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