Tony Hawk gets skateboard peripheral

By Robert Purchese Published 15 May, 2009

Sleek, black, wireless. "Ride" it.

Activision has shown the first pictures of the wireless skateboard peripheral for Tony Hawk: Ride.

It's a black plastic/rubber skateboard-shaped platform without the trucks or wheels of the real-life equivalent. Along the front-side are a series of inputs, comprising a d-pad and the usual face, start/select buttons.

Alongside the picture on the official website are the words, "Get ready to Ride. Be the first. E3 6.2.2009."

GameTrailers has a debut clip of Tony Hawk: Ride that features the board spun 360 degrees at the end.

Activision prepared us for such an unveiling a while back, telling us, "You're not going to be playing this game with a controller in your hands." Exactly what it would be, however, was kept secret.

There's no word on when Tony Hawk: Ride will be out, nor who will be developing it.

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But it has no wheels.

Series creator Neversoft's logo is absent from the trailer, however, and replaced by Robomodo, a new Chicago-based developer "working on a high-profile extreme sports title for Activision Blizzard", according to its website.

We'll check the facts.

E3 runs from 2nd to 4th June. We'll be there.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • jaluuk #1 3 years ago

    Worrying trend for extra plastic peripherals - how many games are planning to use this, I wonder? Would EA ever configure SSX to work properly on this board, or is it just going to be a very expensive way of playing one game?

  • patch #2 3 years ago

    There's no word on when Tony Hawk: Ride will be out, nor who will be developing it. or what platform it'll be for?

  • bluem4gic #3 3 years ago

    Watch gametrailers

    It been confirmed for PS3,XBOX360 and Wii

    I don't think this will catch on to be honest but have to see how good it is first before I judge

  • smernicki #4 3 years ago

    no need! skate killed the tony hawk series and bullshit peripherals aren't going to bring it back

  • Sir_TimAlot #5 3 years ago

    I'm fat, will this thing break if i jump on it? most likely.

  • OllyJ #6 3 years ago

    MEH

    Classic Tony Hawk levels packaged together with a bit of polish and online play and single player Classic style goals on XBLA and PSN.

    That's surely a winner!?

    Tony Hawk used to be such an amazingly perfect game.

  • brappbrap #7 3 years ago

    This will never be as good as TH:pro Skater 2
    Or Skate. Or Skate 2.

    And it's going to be a good £60 more expensive than all of those options. And you'll only be able to play this game on it.

    I'm calling it now, this isn't going to do very well.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #8 3 years ago

    It looks like a hoverboard! I might buy it just so I can pretend to be Marty McFly.

  • joe90 #9 3 years ago

    Lots of people will hurt ....

  • JensonJet #10 3 years ago

    Maybe I'm old fashioned but I'm happy to play games with a joypad, or a mouse and keyboard.

    Games for me are a cheap, lazy, fantasy, pass-time. If and when I need to get in shape or get a bit fitter, I have the outside world and all the sports under the sun. I really don't understand most of these peripherals. Sure skateboarding or playing a guitar may not easy, but it has to be more rewarding, not to mention more fun to actually do these things for real. Recreating car-racing, fighting/fantasy or flight games, stuff that either doesn't exist in real life, or isn't easily accessible to everyone, expensive or dangerous make sense in games, but stuff like this I really don't understand.

  • shotgun44 #11 3 years ago

    I'm gonna piss and moan about this again! I just want to play games with a controller! No wiggling, punching air, jumping, shaking or any of the other shit developers try to make me do! Controllers have worked perfectly for the last 20 years and I don't look like a complete bellend when I'm using them!