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The next Skate will be free-to-play

Electronic Arts will take its skateboarding sim in an all-new direction.

The Skate franchise has been missing in action for more than a decade. After all these years, it’s coming back with a bold new direction. 

On Thursday, Electronic Arts (EA) revealed the fourth installment is called Skate. Yes, we’ll have to stop calling it Skate 4. It’s not supposed to be a sequel or reboot, so developer Full Circle is ditching numbers entirely. Instead, it’ll be a free-to-play multiplayer title complete with cross-play and cross-progression between Xbox, PC, and PlayStation platforms. While the live-service route might scare off long-time fans, Full Circle claims that the microtransactions in Skate won’t be pay-to-win, and there will be no loot boxes. 

“It’s an authentic evolution of the franchise and taking what Skate 3 was in 2010 and bringing it to now and to the future,” Deran Chung, Skate creative director, said via The Verge. “That is not only an evolution of the franchise, but it’s an evolution of where skateboarding is and was from 2010 to now and also where games are from then to now.”

There’s also an all-new Skate developer diary series called The Board Room, which you can check out below. It’s worth watching for the extra gameplay footage.

Development is still early, so don’t expect the Skate release date information anytime soon. Anyone who signed up for playtesting might get to try an early build sometime in the next few months.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Stake 4 early gameplay video shown off as playtest sign-ups open

EA gave fans a first official look at ‘pre-pre-pre-alpha’ footage of the highly-anticipated skateboarding sim.

After more than a decade of waiting, there’s finally official gameplay footage of the next Stake. Better yet, EA will let fans try an early build relatively soon.

On Thursday, EA announced closed playtest sign-ups for Skate. Despite being the fourth installment, its official title is dropping a number. It’s annoying, I know — but the critical detail is pre-registration is already open here. So get on that if you want in on next-generation kickflip tomfoolery.

“We’re still working on it – but it’s time for you to see what we’ve been up to,” EA said via its website. “It’s still early, but we want to get this right, and that means we want you to be a part of it.”

Check out the “pre-pre-pre-alpha” video of Skate below.

Yeah, that’s no doubt work-in-progress stuff. Developer Full Circle is probably happy to release something on its terms rather than deal with another leak for a change.

The Stake FAQ page stresses that playtesting isn’t a beta per se, as development is still very early. Successful applicants will provide instrumental pre-release feedback, though. EA didn’t clarify what sort of factors go into its selection process at all.

Earlier this month, a report claimed there would be some sort of Skate 4 reveal in July. It looks as though that was bang-on. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Skate 4 reveal reportedly coming in July

EA might finally show off the long-rumored sequel.

After all these years, the Skate franchise might be getting a revival.

A report by Try Hard Guides claims that Skate 4 might get an announcement next month. More to the point, a gameplay teaser of some sort. EA doesn’t have any kind of showcase scheduled that we know of yet, so take this with a grain of salt. As you always should with games industry rumors!

However, we know that another Skate is in development at Full Circle. EA created that studio in January 2021 to revive the franchise on Modern platforms. Beyond that, nothing official is available to the public.

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Earlier this year, alpha footage of Stake 4 leaked online. It’s pretty rough, but work-in-progress builds often look not-great. However, the large environments with loads of traversal options show that Full Circle isn’t releasing a by-the-numbers sequel. 

It’s not easy being a fan of skateboarding games. Aside from the superb Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 remaster, there’s not much out there lately, and even that had its sequel canceled. Hopefully, Skate 4 ends up being precisely what enthusiasts want whenever it’s actually shown off.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Stake 4 leak reveals early gameplay footage

The skateboarding series from Electronic Arts will return, and it’s looking good.

Some pre-alpha footage of Skate 4 is floating around out there, and credible sources claim it’s legit.

Gamebeat’s Jeff Grubb reported that an early gameplay video of Skate 4 leaked online on Wednesday. In the footage, we can see a textureless in-game character kick flipping and rail-grinding through wide, empty environments. Despite how rough it may look visually, the gameplay seems solid — more like an actual Skateboarding simulation than the arcade aroma of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.

Watch the leaked footage of Skate 4 for yourself below. Remember, this isn’t anywhere close to the final build. Grubb mentions that the game isn’t coming out anytime soon, though we might hear more about it soon.

The fluidity in this video is pretty impressive. Notice how seamless the transitions are from one trick to another. Hopefully, Electronic Arts (EA) will allow the development team ample polishing time and avoid another Battlefield 2042 situation. After all, Stake 4 is a franchise revival, so doing it right should be EA’s modus operandi.

Stake 4 is only one of many exciting titles being overseen by EA. There are three Star Wars games in development at Respawn while EA Motive plugs away at the Dead Space remake.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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EA announced a new ‘Skate’ game and people lost it on Twitter

A new Skate game is in the works at last.

There are few sports videogames that are as beloved as the defunct Skate series, which revolutionized skateboarding videogames back in the Xbox 360/PS3 era, and fans have been begging EA to make a sequel ever since Skate 3 released in 2010. The studio that made the Skate games, EA Black Box, was shut down in 2013, leaving little hope for a Skate 4 to ever materialize.

A full decade after the last game in the series was released, EA closed its EA Play event on Thursday with a stunning announcement. Crehttps://twitter.com/cantguardjulio/status/1273766877181939713ative director Cuz Parry and game director Deran Chung revealed that a new Skate game is in the works. Chung said that it’s “really early,” and no footage or teasers were shown, so it may be quite a while before we see what next-gen Skate can look like, but it’s happening, and gamers are ecstatic.

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