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Tony Hawk Isn’t Working With Activision Any Longer on Tony Hawk Pro Skater Games

It’s a bleak day for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise, though the games have been in their death throes for some time already. Tony Hawk confirmed via Twitter that he is no longer working with publisher Activision to bring the games to life. In a statement on Twitter where he addresses “anyone” asking him to “remaster” any of the games, etc., he confirms that he isn’t working with the company on the series any longer. It seemed pretty obvious, but unfortunately it’s finally been confirmed.

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The Tony Hawk games haven’t exactly been exemplary releases over the past few months, as Neversoft closed its doors back in 2014, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 from developer Robomodo opened to abysmal sales and critical response. The game did end up having a decent remaster of the original title, but the soundtrack wasn’t exactly what people remembered.

There’s no reason to get upset, though. Tony himself has dropped hints in the past that he could be working on a brand new game outside of Activision’s influence, and though we don’t know what that’s all about just yet, it could make for an interesting resurgence for Tony Hawk and mean a renaissance for skating games in general. We’ll have to see what happens.

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Brittany Vincent

Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.

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