Danne's EA Skate Blog

Thanks Everyone!

Danne — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:33:33 +0000

I’m very happy to have gotten so much comments and ideas from all the visitors. Don’t think the ideas that has come from this blog has gone unnoticed by the people at EA Canada/Black Box. There’s plenty of ideas from this blog that has made it into the real game.

I’m gonna try to get an interview with the EA Canada/Black Box team that is working on Skate 2. Hopefully I can get a review copy of the game, or at least get a beta copy and give you all the hard facts.

Thanks again for visting my EA Skate blog.

News & Information

Danne — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:35:22 +0000

Official Skate 2 Trailer

New San Vanelona – 5 years has passed since the last time you visited San Vanelona. The city got destroyed in Skate It for the Wii. The city has now been rebuilt, all new spots and all new places.

Flick It – Hand/Foot plants and Hippie jumps has been added to the flick it control. They have doubled the amounts of tricks in Skate 2. Will we see darkslides? We’ll see.

Walking & Running – It’s time to get off your skate, you can now walk and run in the game. And you are now also able to move objects within the city around to create your own spots and lines.

What happened to that dude? – If you remember the Skate 2 teaser video there was one called “What happened to that dude?” Well the video kind of gave away that you are gonna be able to import your old skater some how. EA don’t wanna give away the story right now, but more info about this is coming soon.

Character Customization – It has been rumored that Skate 2 will have a character customization mode like in Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Fight Night etc etc. We don’t know if this is true or not yet but from screenshots and videos we can see diffrent looking characters that’s been created, the faces does not look the same. Oh and you can now play as a woman.

More information to come. In the mean time go check out 1UP’s Skate 2 preview and interview. They have screenshots and videos Click here!

My Skate Video Is Up!

Danne — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:05:11 +0000

Please leave comments!

Skate 2 Teaser Videos

Danne — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:28:37 +0000

Dropping the Deuce
What happened to that Dude? Import your old skater to Skate 2?

What happened to San Vanelona? New city in Skate 2

Skate 2 and Skate It News

Danne — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:05:41 +0000

GAMERS SKATE BACK INTO ACTION…
THIS TIME ON NINTENDO WII AND DS

‘Skate It’ Delivers Popular Flickit Controls and Introduces Support for Wii
Balance Board to Deliver Unique Skateboarding Experience.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 12, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today
announced Skate It, a new game in the awardwinning
Skate franchise that taps into the heart and soul of being on a skateboard. Designed exclusively for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems, Skate It has Nintendo players riding with the skate pros, owning the best spots in San Vanelona and pulling off the sickest tricks using the popular FlickIt controls. Loaded with allnew gameplay features, Skate It breaks new ground by introducing innovative support for the Wii Balance Board which gives players a fresh way to create their own signature skateboarding style.

“We knew it would be an exciting challenge to bring the soul and feel of skateboarding to the Wii
and Nintendo DS,” said Scott Blackwood, Executive Producer Skate
franchise. “With fresh new designs and gameplay components built from scratch, we’ve been able to, once again, capture
the true experience of skateboarding in a completely innovative way.”

Skate It unleashes the FlickIt revolution on to the Nintendo platforms, letting gamers use the Wii
remote or the Nintendo DS stylus to string together their best tricks for the ultimate skate line. The
Wii remote becomes a skateboard and reacts to gestures that mirror actual skate flips and
moves. Players can also deepen this experience by planting their feet on the Wii Balance Board.
Skate It brings the hit Skate franchise to a new level of creative ingenuity and gameplay
excellence.

Skate It will ship in 2008. The game has not yet been rated by the ESRB.

Separately, Skate 2 is also currently in development for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system.

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About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading
interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes,
and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers,
cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names:
EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA SPORTS BIG™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2007, EA posted revenue of
$3.09 billion and had 24 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online
game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases
can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.

My Movie – Beta

Danne — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:58:21 +0000

Heres a quick preview

Who’s Your Sponsors?

Danne — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:05:15 +0000

Here’s my sponsors that I picked:

Deck: Zero
Trucks: Royal
Wheels: Hubba
Shoes: Ipath

Also if you had the chance to pick any sponsor that you wanted, who would that sponsor be? It doesn’t have to be a company/brand that’s all ready in the game.

Realplayer Rips Your Skate Reel Vids

Danne — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:03:02 +0000

The new Real Player 11 beta has a function to rip flash movies from the Internet to your PC.

You simple just have to hover the mouse over the video while it’s playing then a “Download This Video” button comes up, just click it and then it downloads your skate reel video to your computer. It’s saves as a .flv format. I haven’t found a flash to video converter that supports the flash file you download from skate.reel yet though. But if anyone knows one, please share.

You can always use the RealPlayer Pro to convert them to other formats right in the player if you feel like paying for it. And of course you can always open them up in Adobe Flash and make sick vidoes that way.

Anyway go to Real.com to download the free or pro player and check it out.

Manual Wall Trick

Danne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:50:59 +0000

Pretty slick eh?

Skate Reel Up And Running

Danne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:42:41 +0000

Finally they have the real version up, I havnt been able to view my own vidoes from a web browser till today. Now let’s make cool videos