After 15 years, EA’s beloved skateboarding franchise Skate will finally return to the gaming scene starting this September.
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, skateboarding video games were at their peak thanks to games such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Ride, and American Wasteland, but none of them arguably reached the same popularity heights as EA’s Skate series.
Originally developed by the now-defunct EA Black Box, the Skate series was praised for its easy-to-understand controls, free-flowing gameplay, fun, social multiplayer, and realistic, street-style tricks, as opposed to the more action-focused maneuvers seen in the X Games.
Despite the Skate trilogy’s success and stable sales of Skate 3 years after its 2010 launch, the Skate series remained dormant until 2020, when EA announced a reboot of Skate developed by Full Circle called skate. which is finally being made officially available to the general public in a few weeks.
The Long-Awaited Return of Skate
On Tuesday, Full Circle released a new trailer for skate.’s free-to-play early access in the style of David Attenborough’s narration for numerous documentaries.
The trailer depicts several skaters “migrating” to the fictional city of San Vansterdam,...
