Tony Hawk reveals name of next game

By Ellie Gibson Published 20 April, 2010

"Somewhere a PR team is reeling."

Skateboarder Tony Hawk appears to have announced the name of his next videogame - and then tried to de-announce it.

"Tony Hawk: Shred. There, I said it," he wrote on his Twitter page. "Actually, I named it. Somewhere a PR team is reeling."

The Tweet has since been deleted, but not before the likes of Kotaku took a snapshot.

So what are the chances Hawk was referring to a sequel to Tony Hawk: Ride, the skateboard peripheral-controlled effort released last year? Pretty good, we'd wager. Here's hoping it's a bit better than that game.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • onezeonx #1 2 years ago

    I wish people would stop buying this shit series now!

    Yes it was awesome when they first starting coming out but the last few have been terrible!
    Skate 1/2/3 are all a better game IMO but this will sell more as usual.

  • the_dudefather #2 2 years ago

    "Tony Hawk: Shred. There, I said it," he wrote on his Twitter page. "Actually, a marketing team chose it as it appeals to the demographics that we are currently trying to win back after the last game, then I said it sounded cool, so it was my idea. Somewhere a PR team is saying 'thank you Mr Hawk for announcing the name on twitter as we discussed before'."

    fixed

  • MarcusJ #3 2 years ago

    Are we ruling out the possibility he's going into the marmalade business?

  • iamian #4 2 years ago

    Or confidential document destruction..?

  • menage #5 2 years ago

    Oh give up already.

    Game haven't been good since THPS3, when you let Jackass and juvenile pubejokes in there and forgot about what made it fun in the first place.

  • nuanimal #6 2 years ago

    No sorry, THPS2 was the best - just for the music alone.

  • giant_frying_pan #7 2 years ago

    Tony Hawk RIDE skateboard - will it blend?

  • WinterSnowblind #8 2 years ago

    @onezeonx
    What are you talking about?
    When the first Skate was released it outsold the new Tony Hawk game of that year nearly 3:1.

    They actually had to go back and try to completely reinvent Tony Hawk because of that and we ended up with Skate which was not only a massive critical failure but completely bombed in sales. Considering this one is said to use the same wonky perhiperal.. I don't see it doing any better.

  • Spekingur #9 2 years ago

    TH:Shred - Natal compatible.

  • OllyJ #10 2 years ago

    TONY HAWK XBLA/PSN Classic Levels, multiplayer, leaderboards.

    that is all.

  • geeza2020 #11 2 years ago

    Unfortunately Mr Hawk, I stopped caring about your games when they went shit after THPS3 many years ago, so would you kindly do one?

  • OllyJ #12 2 years ago

    don’t agree with all this “games went shit after THPS3”

    4 was good, had some decent levels, Online multiplayer and had the same structure as 3.
    THUG, OK that was gash.
    THUG 2 was great, and retained some classic THPS feel and classic goals.
    THAW……not brilliant but not terrible to play.
    THP8 Awesome and colourful.
    TH Proving Grounds Garbage, grey, dull and boring.
    RiDE, don’t know, wouldn’t touch it with yours.

  • menage #13 2 years ago

    @OllyJ

    Nope, sorry, they killed THPS4 when they added open worlds and I had to talk to a guy to get his freaking monkey out of the tree. No more 2 minute pass the beer speed run = epic fail. It never was a SP game for me, and when they killed that, they killed the couch party's.
    Edited by menage at 20/04/10 @ 10:02

  • OllyJ #14 2 years ago

    THPS4 was not open world though, the levels were just bigger. THUG was open world and I agree the open world tainted it. As did the jackass influence and now the board

    I like the small learnable arenas, not massive huge complex aprawling cities. As I said THPS4 had brilliant online multiplayer, some GREAT levels KONA, Shipyard...It isn't a patch on the previous 3 but it's FAR from being terrible.

  • Monkey_Puncher #15 2 years ago

    Shred? Hahahahaha!

    Were not in the 90's any more Mr Hawk, you can't call games Shred and get away with it.

  • tomjoadsghost #16 2 years ago

    Boo, i was hoping it was gonna be Tony Hawks:GRIND and come with a see-saw for the RIDE board.

  • riz23 #17 2 years ago

    Tony Hawk: Dead. There I said it.

  • darleysam #18 2 years ago

    So Activision found a way to shoehorn in an 'identity theft prevention' minigame, obviously requiring yet another peripheral.

    Got it.

  • Red-Moose #19 2 years ago

    Tony Hawk's "I wish I didn't sign that 14 game contract" Sk8at3r B0y USA.

  • Skooch #20 2 years ago

    I remember playing the original TH demo on an OXM disc for literally months - I went round a mates house and he said "check this out, great game" and we played it and played it for ages, I have never played a demo so much, it was just so SATISFYINGLY AMAZING.

    Anyway, then TH2 came along and you could manual inbetween moves which I hated and then downhill from there, never played it after TH2.

    But the first was a TRULY great game.

  • tobsen #21 2 years ago

    "Tony Hawk: Dead", that's just fantastic... That one will be all over the comments threads once the new installment has been shredded by reviewers, and by then the PR team will be *really* reeling about the product name they came up with.

  • monkfishjoe #22 2 years ago

    @nuanimal

    I completely agree. I've actually had most of the track list of THPS2 going around in my head since playing the Skate 3 demo (which oddly reminded me of the high school level in THPS2).

    It was the most awesome of awesome games!

  • X #23 2 years ago

    What the fhawk do people see in these games now? I stopped playing them after Pro Skater 3. Skate isn't bad though :)

  • smelly #24 2 years ago

    >I wish people would stop buying this shit series now!

    Why? Does it hurt you physically if someone buys something you dont like (or indeed actually tried?)?

  • tobsen #25 2 years ago

    @smelly: Too many people buying cynical and shitty games is actually a major problem, because it makes publisher make more of these cynical and shitty games instead of good ones.

  • smelly #26 2 years ago

    But it wasnt a cynical and shitty game.. they tried really hard to make it good, it wasnt shovelware.. it just (according to reviews i've read - havent played it) failed at what it was trying to do.

    Besides - it's all relative. I'm bored of fps games, but yet everyone keeps buying them and so publishers keep making them. There's no point in me getting upset that everyone rushes out to buy (imho) mediocre stuff like mw2 and halo... In the same way as it's not worth getting upset if a game YOU dont like sells well. There are obviously people out there who DO like it.

    And sure, the last tony hawks game reviewed badly - what's to say they havent learned from their mistakes when they make the next one?
    Edited by smelly at 20/04/10 @ 22:52

  • JamieR #27 2 years ago

    I remember liking the second game on the play station but I've not had interest in the series since.

  • 3william56 #28 2 years ago

    Shred Cred Redemption?