Earlier today, we reported that a brand-new entry in the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series was currently in the works. The information came from pro skateboarder Jason Dill, who spilled the beans during the most recent The Nine Club podcast.
In fact, today we have reported some pretty good news related to skateboarding video games, as Easy Day Studios also revealed the release date trailer for Skater XL — with a new trailer that showed off some of the brands that will be featured in the upcoming title.
We still have some skateboarding news to report, although this one may not be as uplifting as the ones mentioned above.
As it turns out, during that same The Nine Club podcast, pro skateboarder Jason Dill revealed that he was approached by Electronic Arts to be part of a new Skate game, although it isn't the kind of game that players may be waiting for.
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"I got a call from the EA people about 10 months ago, and they said, 'Hey, we want to talk about the Skate game,' I said, 'that's fine'," revealed Dill. "[They] basically said, 'We want to do a mobile version of Skate 3.' I wrote back, and I said, 'What else?"' They wrote back, "No, that's it."
As it turns out, the game that Electronic Arts was working on was supposed to be a mobile port of the critically acclaimed Skate 3, and Dill was not really excited to be part of it.
"I wrote back, 'Hey, no big deal, but nobody wants your stupid mobile version of Skate 3. Make Skate f--king 4 already, cause just, like, do it. Just make the game and participate again. You can't level it up to the same numbers you get on other games, you do it for a cultural thing that pays you back later.'"
While the mobile version of Skate 3 may still be on Electronic Arts' schedule, although it hasn't even been officially announced, this also rules out the possibility of a the long-clamoured Skate 4, which is the news that fans of the popular series didn't want to hear.
