After a 15-year hiatus, a new Skate game is coming in 2025

Skateboarding video games have been going by one other golden age the previous couple of years with contributions like Devolver’s surrealist skater Skate Story and Phantom Coast Video games’ roguelite shredder Helskate. And now a brand new entry in one of the beloved skateboarding franchises simply moved one step nearer to getting a launch date.

EA introduced plans for an early entry launch for a brand new Skate — merely titled skate. (decrease case, with a interval) —recreation subsequent 12 months on the sport’s official X account. The replace additionally contains some pre-alpha footage of the brand new recreation that’s at the moment being playtested for consoles and the franchise’s first PC launch by Steam.

Followers of the long-running Skate franchise have been receiving a stream of teases and updates since EA first introduced the brand new entry 4 years in the past. Notably, final June EA knowledgeable followers this new title could be a free-to-play stay service recreation with microtransactions (allegedly with none “play-to-win” components although). The sport’s writer additionally launched new particulars on its official recreation dev diary about the way it’s rebuilding the “Flick-It” trick management system, increasing the sport’s character customizations and implementing playtests with suggestions from the franchise’s followers.

The devs additionally revealed some fascinating particulars in regards to the recreation’s core narrative. The brand new Skate recreation takes place within the fictional metropolis of San Vansterdam, which has been taken over by a company overlord named M-Corp. Evidently M-Corp’s misdeeds are lastly catching as much as it, which means that the shreddable metropolis of San Van is open to skaters as soon as once more. A teaser video shared an replace on M-Corp’s crumbling empire starring I Suppose You Ought to Depart star and comic Tim Robinson as company lackey Richard “Richie” Dandle.