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November 6th, 2009 at 06:30pm
Under Xbox 360
We debated which of the two video assets Activision recently sent us for Tony Hawk: Ride should go a the top of the post, and which should be relegated to the unfavorable, post-jump real estate. The in-game trailer is pretty slick, and features that super catchy We Are Scientists jam. (You know the one, you hip guy, you.) However, the gameplay demonstration actually shows the peripheral being used to go on a “sick run,” apparently part of a long-standing feud between Activision and Robomodo.
We decided to put the “sick run” at the top of the post, if only because we want you to know that this is exactly how we looked the first time we played the game at E3. Only we didn’t crash quite so much, and also, when we finished playing, Tony Hawk himself came up and gave us a high-five with one of his giant hands. Check out the video above, then click past the jump to check out its neglected (but catchy!) brother.
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Tony Hawk: Ride videos are in-game and out-of-game originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, robomodo, skateboard, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride, trailer, video
By Mister-X
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October 1st, 2009 at 10:00pm
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Despite concerns that one third of Activision’s holiday peripheral triforce would be missing its North American release date, the publisher has assured us today that Tony Hawk Ride will still be arriving on November 17 as planned. A rep from Acti told Joystiq, “The game is on sale Nov. 17 in the US, Nov. 27 in Germany and Dec. 4 in the UK,” confirming a two week delay for United Kingdom-ers.
We may be getting the game two weeks before you folks in the UK but look at it this way: now you have two more weeks to sell off your furniture and reorganize your living room for all your new plastic peripherals. Hooray!
Tony Hawk Ride pushed back to Dec. 4 in UK, arriving on time in NA originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, delay, neversoft, peripherals, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride, uk
By Mister-X
Continue Reading Tony Hawk Ride pushed back to Dec. 4 in UK, arriving on time in NA
September 9th, 2009 at 10:15am
Under Xbox 360
Hi. I’m Joystiq writer Griffin McElroy, and those are my feet. They’re attached to my shins, which attach to a long sequence of other appendages which stop at my brain — which at the very moment this image was taken, was likely in a confused, panicked state. It’s a reflex reaction I usually turn to when placed before an alien video game peripheral, although in most cases, it quickly subsides, and is replaced with a steely determination to figure out how it works.
By the time I’d reached the end of my brief hands-on session with Tony Hawk Ride, I had only just begun to deconstruct the hardware’s machinations, and started determining how to deftly manipulate it in order to do sweet tricks. I was making progress in this endeavor when the demo came to a halt, but I’m still not sure my mind had completely wrapped around how I was supposed to manipulate the device. Is that indicative of the peripheral’s weakness? No, I think it can be entirely chalked up to the fact that skateboarders move in mysterious ways.
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Hands-on: Tony Hawk Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, hands-on, neversoft, pax, pax-2009, robomodo, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride
By Mister-X
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August 20th, 2009 at 02:00am
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Was it this silly when Guitar Hero first launched, with professional musicians trotted out to awkwardly “play” the game? Watching an aging Tony Hawk, grey hair in-tow, contort his body on the skateboard peripheral shipping with Tony Hawk Ride is the very definition of wahjah.
Try as Activision might, we’re still not convinced we need yet another peripheral for our already cramped living rooms. Consider that we’ve already used our BalanceBoard for snowboarding, Sony’s EyeToy is sounding more robust every day and Project Natal is promising a board-free skateboarding experience. See the common denominator? No new, large plastic objects in our houses! That’s a win-win to us.
Watch pro skateboarders uncomfortably play Tony Hawk Ride originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, gamescom, gamescom-2009, neversoft, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride, trailer
By Mister-X
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August 6th, 2009 at 06:00pm
Under Xbox 360
Activision has made the first official announcement regarding the price of Tony Hawk Ride. In the UK, a set containing the game and board will cost £99.99 ($169) upon its November 20 release. The only information we have for a North American price to compare is the $120 at which GameStop currently lists the game. Apparently, the game is called Tony Hawk Ride because you’ll need to start riding in friends’ cars after you sell your own for peripheral money.
UK retailer GAME will offer an exclusive limited edition of Ride (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii), featuring the red-and-black hawk artwork seen above, for the same price. It also has the game’s logo on it so you don’t confuse it with a real skateboard. That would be embarrassing.
Tony Hawk Ride dated, priced, limited edition’d in UK originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, game, robomodo, skateboard, skating, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride
By Mister-X
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July 31st, 2009 at 06:45pm
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Though we could call the list of folks showing their faces in Tony Hawk Ride a whole mess of things, one we wouldn’t call it is “celebrity.” Rather than drop in famous folks like Steve-O or, umm, Wolverine, the list that Eurogamer nabbed features more actual skateboarders than anything else.
From Steve Nesser to Dustin Dollin to Mike “I beat up four dudes by myself” Vallely, the roster features little in the way of traditional Tony Hawk tomfoolery. Don’t let the halfway-there hoverboard fool you, dearest reader, this is clearly a more serious skateboarding entry in the Tony Hawk game franchise. Peep the entirety of the list after the jump.
Continue reading Activision details Tony Hawk Ride’s ‘celebrity’ roster
Activision details Tony Hawk Ride’s ‘celebrity’ roster originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, dustin-dollin, eurogamer, mike-vallely, neversoft, peripherals, skateboarding, steve-nesser, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride
By Mister-X
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June 22nd, 2009 at 02:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Joshua Tsui, president of Tony Hawk Ride developer Robomodo, told Videogamer.com that gamers concerned about blowing a bunch of money on the package should see it as an investment in a new platform, because the skateboard peripheral that comes with Ride won’t be a single-use device.
“It’s really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we’re concentrating on Tony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral,” Tsui said.
Discussing potential followup games to use the board, Tsui said, “The obvious ones are snowboarding and surfing and such, but there are a lot of games that can be used with this board, and we’re really excited to start working on those.”
Of course, the real followup games will be called Tony Hawk’s Ride 2, Tony Hawk’s Ride 3, and Tony Hawk’s Ride 4, and each one will have an optional bundle that includes a new board with just enough upgrades to tempt people into repeat purchases. Because, you know, Activision.
Tony Hawk Ride board to be used for ‘many games’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: activision, robomodo, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-ride, Wii / Nintendo
By Mister-X
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