Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is pretty much the Bill and Ted experience that I was waiting for this year: Instantly excellent and making me want to do air guitar solos whenever I think about it: I’m not the only person who feels this way currently. Reviews from other outlets have managed to pop an 89 Metacritic Ollie score, social …
One of the more standard feats that players could pull off in many a Tony Hawk game? A Mute Grab, which happens to be a challenging grab of your board while in the air. It’s a great trick, but one with a slightly checkered past and one that is getting a name change that honours its creator instead of poking fun at him.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater may have brought skateboarding to the masses in a fashion that didn’t result in a tsunami of twisted ankles, flattened faces and missing testicles after a rail grind attempt gone tragically awry, but it’s a series that also lifted the lid on some of the greatest punk rock bands and tracks of all time. There’s a …
What could Activision pull out of the vault and give a new lick of paint? Something rather gnarly.
We’ve spoken before about how Neversoft pulled off a 1080 miracle with this project, smashing a deadline and delivering an experience that was the perfect way to end a decade, a century and a millennium. Celebrating the mother of all milestones, the Hawk himself posted on Twitter some previously unseen footage of the motion capture for the game.
In August 1999, Activision and Neversoft released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and a genre went mainstream. While THPS may not have been the first skateboarding game on the market, it was still the very best that a burgeoning genre could offer.
From its first 1080 Benihanas as a game that was expected to be a flop through to its glory days and its twilight, Pretending I’m Superman is aiming to tell the full story of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
Yeah, definitely! It’s not like that headline above is pure clickbait, amirite? Oh yeah, 100% facts baby! I’m all about the heads being rolled around, in a vague and surreal sense. So let’s get down to it, enough waffling around. Let’s see these heards roll around already!
Every year in the gaming industry, there is a familiar buzz that starts building …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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