Spotlight
Paint the town red.
VideoShawn White Skateboarding - 15 mins
Level grinding.
VideoShaun White Skateboarding launch trailer
Skyscraper in the way? No problem.
VideoShaun White Skateboarding multiplayer
Mother-flipping.
Key events
10th November 2010
22nd October 2010
8th September 2010
Tony Hawk vs Shaun White results in
Which skating game was the biggest flop?
Last year, two of the biggest names in skateboarding competed for gamers' hard-earned cash with Tony Hawk: Shred and Shaun White Skateboarding. Both titles tanked, but which one bombed the hardest?
Paint the town red.
Ignore the title: Shaun White Skateboarding has surprisingly little to do with the sport. Not in the sense that the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, with its physics-defying stunts and 5000-metre grinds, was a world away from the bruising realities of skateboarding. But rather, the story, themes and systems that underpin Ubisoft Montreal's game have little to do with trucks, tricks and grip-tape – the game instead drawing its primary inspiration from the stoner-athlete world-view of the sport's practitioners.
The premise is an Orwellian-meets-hippy fairytale. White's city has been drained of all colour and vibrancy by The Ministry, a dour, suited government that frowns upon individual expression and tramples down any shoots of creativity that emerge from the cracks of its concrete domain.
The Ministry has imprisoned the titular skateboarder because his deck has the power to reverse this desaturation of the world, returning life and colour to the streets with its magical wheels. Before being thrown into his cell, White passes the deck over to you, charging you with returning the city to its former vibrancy through the medium of, er, tricks and grinds.
VideoShawn White Skateboarding - 15 mins
Level grinding.
Level grinding.
No Shaun White Blu-ray mishap here
Sony's misprint restricted to US.
Sony America fudged the production of Shaun White Skateboarding on Blu-ray causing a delay. Thankfully, the problem won't spread to Europe and halt Friday's launch.
VideoShaun White Skateboarding launch trailer
Skyscraper in the way? No problem.
VideoShaun White Skateboarding multiplayer
Mother-flipping.
Mother-flipping.
VideoShaun White Skateboarding trailer
Some rad footage, man.
3DTV in every home in 3 years – Ubisoft
"More important than some believe."
A 3D-enabled telly will be in every living room in just three years time, French game publisher Ubisoft has predicted.
Shaun White hated first game appearance
Rubbish Activision game put him off for ages.
Skateboarding and snowboarding man Shaun White has been talking about how much he hated his first appearance in a videogame.
Shaun White Skateboarding detailed
Game's hook is transformable cities.
Ubisoft has reconfirmed Shaun White Skateboarding for release on PC, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 this autumn.
Can Ubisoft topple Tony Hawk, Skate?
Can Ubisoft topple Tony Hawk, Skate?
VideoShaun White swaps snow for concrete
Ubisoft enters the skate-game market.
Ubisoft enters the skate-game market.
Green Ubisoft ditching paper manuals
Digital replacements in effect this year.
Publishing giant Ubisoft has taken a pioneering step towards a greener future by abolishing paper game manuals.
Ubisoft to tackle skate and football
Shaun White, Pure Football this year.
Ubisoft has announced that it'll be making its entry into two more sports game genres this year with Shaun White Skateboarding and Pure Football.
