Tony Hawk drops another video game tease: ‘There will be a future’
Tony Hawk has again teased plans for something related to the Pro Skater video game series.
On Sunday, Hawk marked the original Pro Skater game’s 25th anniversary with a post on his Instagram page. The athlete said he was “immensely proud” of the series and thanked Activision and original developer Neversoft.
Most noteworthy was how Hawk concluded the post, however. He wrote: “I’m not supposed to tease anything else about the future of the series; but there will be a future.”
The tease comes weeks after an evocative YouTube interview, in which Hawk said: “I wish I could tell you more, but I can tell you that I’ve been talking to Activision again, we’re working on something.”
The last Tony Hawk Pro Skater game was 2020’s remake of the original two entries. Tony Hawk claimed in 2022 that a second collection of remakes following Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 was planned, until developer Vicarious Visions was absorbed into Activision.
“That was the plan, even up until the release date of [1 and 2],” Hawk said. “We were doing 3 and 4, and then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then they were looking for other developers, and then it was over.”
He added: “The truth of it is [Activision] were trying to find somebody to do 3 and 4 but they just didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious.
“So they took other pitches from other studios, like, ‘what would you do with the THPS title?’ And they didn’t like anything they heard, and then that was it.
“Who knows? Maybe when the dust settles, we’ll figure it out. You never know. I never would’ve thought we were going to do 1+2, 20 years later.”
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