{"id":13798,"date":"2018-02-27T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/tony_hawk_laments_the_fact_that_he_doesnt_own_the_pro_skater_brand"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:30:00","slug":"tony-hawk-laments-the-fact-that-he-doesnt-own-the-pro-skater-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/tony-hawk-laments-the-fact-that-he-doesnt-own-the-pro-skater-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Laments The Fact That He Doesn&#8217;t Own The Pro Skater Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 09.38.01.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/tony_hawk_laments_the_fact_that_he_doesnt_own_the_thps_brand\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/tony_hawk_laments_the_fact_that_he_doesnt_own_the_thps_brand\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 09.38.01.png\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Joshua Duplechian\/ESPN<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater<\/strong> is one of the most iconic brands in gaming history. From its humble origins during the mid-&#8217;90s the franchise became a genuine must-have title, even making fans out of people who have <em>zero<\/em> interest in skateboarding. It also elevated Tony Hawk &#8211; then one of the most famous skaters on the planet &#8211; to a whole new level of fame.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we had a decent entry in the Tony Hawk series; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/tony_hawk_ride\"><strong>Ride<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Shred<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Pro Skater 5<\/strong> all received\u00a0negative reviews at launch and Activision has barely touched the series since 2015. Pro Skater 5&#8217;s online servers were reportedly switched off last year.<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine, Hawk gets plenty of requests from fans regarding the series &#8211; as well as questions regarding Pro Skater 5&#8217;s online status &#8211; and has taken to Twitter to address the situation. Despite it bearing his name, he doesn&#8217;t actually own the Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater brand:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To anyone asking me to &#8216;remaster&#8221; old games, or complaining about THPS servers being down: Activision owns the THPS license but I am no longer working with them. If I had the skills \/ authority to reboot servers or code games for newer systems on my own, I would be happy to&#8230;<\/span>\u2014 Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyhawk\/status\/968210496007503872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Interestingly, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/descenders\">Descenders<\/a><\/strong> studio RageSquid &#8211; the members of which have publicly stated that their game is directly inspired by THPS &#8211; seem to be serious about working with Hawk on a spiritual successor:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(Genuinely getting in touch with Tony by the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RageSquid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RageSquid<\/a> are massive skateboarders so making the next Tony Hawk game would be a dream come true)<\/span>\u2014 Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaveofRavendale\/status\/968415298218012673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know about you, but we&#8217;d love to see Hawk get involved with another skating video game, and RageSquid seem to be the ideal team to make it happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your memories of THPS and what you think about the skating legend hopping onto his board for another potential video game by performing a ollie in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Joshua Duplechian\/ESPN Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater is one of the most iconic brands in gaming history. From its humble origins during the mid-&#8217;90s the franchise became a genuine must-have title, even making fans out of people who have zero interest in skateboarding. It also elevated Tony Hawk &#8211; then one of the most famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}