Vicarious Visions, the studio behind some of the best remasters of recent memory and plenty of other great games, just experienced a major paradigm shift.

There’s not a lot to do in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 warehouse demo, but what is there speaks volumes of just how much love and care has been poured into this handsome remaster.

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 …

Could a Tony Hawk Pro Skater remaster of the first two games in the series be a reminder of retro extreme sports glory? Find out for yourself in this first look at the gnarliest of do-overs.

Modern Warfare and its absolutely ridiculous patch sizes may not even be half a year old yet, but Activision as usual has a new Call of Duty in the pipeline.

We’ve been a good couple of years now without a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game, which is a good couple of years too many in my book. While I’ve been screaming into the void for years now that Robomodo’s last-ditch attempt under orders from Activision that resulted in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 wasn’t a bad game at all (and …

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 is the Helen of Troy of video games, launching a thousand extreme sports ships in its direction and paving the way for a franchise that would reach new highs with the likes of two direct sequels and the legendary Tony Hawk Underground reboot. But beyond all that, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 still sounds like a blast to play.