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was released in 2010 as a major departure from prior installments with its new setting in the city of Port Carverton and an unprecedented increase of freedom. The player must once again skate to stardom after a dangerous stunt in the city goes wrong, costing them a lucrative endorsement deal.
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will be a free-to-play title, and will be set in a new city known as San Vansterdam. In September 2024, the game was confirmed to be launching in early access in 2025. As of September 2024, it is in the playtesting stage via EA's playtesting service.
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released on that generation's Nintendo platforms, leveraging their motion controls to implement the series' signature "Flick-it" controls. All of these four games were released annually towards the end of the 2000s, before the series went on hiatus.
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was in development. EA established Full Circle, a new studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, to lead its development. The studio is led by Daniel McCulloch, and includes Deran Chung and Cuz Parry, who had created the original
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for the first time ever in the series' history, and will also target unspecified PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as mobile platforms. In July 2022, the game was announced as
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to unlock new areas, obtain new cosmetics and eventually rise to stardom. Along the way, they can encounter, compete with and even play as famous real-life skaters, including
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video games with its unique control system, called "Flick-it", in which players execute tricks with brief, rapid movements of either or both
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series was released in 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and mobile phones. It is set in the fictional city of San Vanelona, a combination of
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a location of their choosing. A special injury system called the "Hall of Meat" tracks injuries sustained during wipeouts, particularly
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games. In late August 2021, Electronic Arts confirmed that the game will at least be available on
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Released in 2008, this spin-off, targeting the Wii, Nintendo DS and iOS, takes advantage of their
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setting, completing diverse and increasingly difficult challenges while being filmed by cameraman
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and follows the journey of an ordinary skater rising to fame after a devastating accident.
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to implement the series' "Flick-it" control system and is also set between
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Index

Skate

Genre(s)
Extreme sports game
Developer(s)
EA Black Box
EA Montreal
Exient Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Electronic Arts
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
Xbox 360
Xbox One
mobile phone
Wii
Nintendo DS
iOS
Skate
Skate 3
extreme sports games
Electronic Arts
EA Black Box
skateboarding
analog sticks
gamepad
open world
Giovanni Reda
Danny Way
Terry Kennedy

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