Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake is real, and it’s coming in July with new skaters, parks, music, and more
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Two weeks after a shock tease in Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6, it is now official: Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 is being “remade from the bottom up” and can ollie right into a 360 bottom half-pipe faceplant boogaloo (or no matter) on July 8.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 is being developed by Iron Galaxy Studios in collaboration with Activision and, after all, Tony Hawk himself. The up to date recreation will embody the “basic content material” of the unique with further content material together with “new skaters, gnarlier tips, an excellent sicker soundtrack,” and all new skate parks. It’ll additionally characteristic cross-platform multiplayer for as much as eight gamers.
This has been a very long time coming. The Name of Responsibility tease in February was exhausting to misread as something however affirmation, and Mr. Hawk himself dropped a large trace in September 2024 when he stated that he and Activision had been “engaged on one thing” that “followers will really respect.”
Initially an Epic Video games Retailer unique, Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1+2 got here out in 2020 and was fairly unbelievable, however plans to observe it up with THPS 3+4 fizzled when developer Vicarious Visions was folded into Blizzard in 2021. However then Activision—the corporate accountable for taking Vicarious Visions out behind the woodshed within the first place, keep in mind—could not discover anybody else it trusted to deal with the remake, so ultimately everybody made a moist fart noise and dropped the entire thing. THPS 1+2 later got here to Steam in October 2023.
Iron Galaxy is an attention-grabbing alternative to select up the slack. Based in 2008, the studio launched its first recreation, Wreckateer, in 2012 and adopted that with Divekick, help for Killer Intuition, and Extinction, which was not nice. Its most up-to-date recreation, the 2022 wrestling battle royale Rumbleverse, lasted simply six months earlier than it was shut down.
But it surely did what it did fairly effectively, and in a tragic twist it was nominated for 2 DICE awards—Preventing Recreation of the Yr and On-line Recreation of the Yr—only a couple weeks earlier than the end-of-service announcement. (It gained neither, for the file, however in one other unhappy twist of irony, the Preventing Recreation of the Yr title was claimed by Multiversus, which has since come to the tip of the highway itself.) That offers me hope that Iron Galaxy, regardless of its struggles—the studio laid off 66 staff solely a month in the past in what it stated was a “final resort” effort to “allow our long-term survival” —is the appropriate alternative for the job.
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Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 on PC can be launched on Steam, Battle.internet, and the Microsoft Retailer—July 8, keep in mind—and also will be accessible on launch day on PC Recreation Cross and Recreation Cross Final.
