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GameStop Tony Hawk Ride pre-order bonus includes extra level

It was recently announced that those who preorder Tony Hawk Ride at GameStop will be rewarded with the ‘Quiksilver All ’80s All Day Level’ for use with the game.

According to the press release this level mimicks a Quiksilver event help in December 2008 where Mr. Hawk himself took gold. Furthermore, it allows players to “skate on a full 80’s style vert ramp, dressed in an authentic Quiksilver retro wardrobe, executing a special, vintage trick list” along with come face to face with an “’80s version of Tony Hawk”.

Will this help spurr Tony Hawk Ride sales? Maybe, but not as much as top notch game play would. Will it deliver? We’ll have to wait until November 17th to find out.

via gonintendo

Glu developing Blur, Guitar Hero 5 and Tony Hawk: Ride

It looks like Modern Warfare 2 isn’t the only game Glu will be developing for mobile handses as it was recently announced that the studio will also get their hands on Blur, Guitar Hero 5, and Tony Hawk: Ride.

There are absolutely no details regarding gameplay for any of these games but we do know that they will be released this year for Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, and Java-based handsets.

Anyone excited? I still don’t understand why they aren’t releasing these games for the iPhone.

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Tony Hawk Ride controller to work with other games

When Activision first announced that Tony Hawk Ride would feature a bundled skateboard controller, gamers everywhere rolled their eyes and pictured the peripheral collecting dust next to their Rock Band drums.

Well, according to Robomodo’s president, Joshua Tsui, you might want to keep the skateboard dusted off a bit longer:

It’s really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we’re concentrating on Tony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral. We look at it less as a peripheral, as more of a platform. The obvious ones are snowboarding and surfing and such, but there are a lot of games that can be used with this board, and we’re really excited to start working on those.

Tony Hawk Ride will be released for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii later this year.

Please, oh please Robomodo, simulate the hoverboard found in Back to the Future and let us zoom around New York City. Please?

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Tony Hawk Ride controller won’t handle gamers above 300 lbs.

Here is an announcement that probably won’t apply to the majority of you, but for those whom it does concern Robomodo has recently announced that the controller for Tony Hawk Ride will allow for use by gamers 300 pounds and under. Anything over 300 pounds and the controller will presumably turn to dust.

Then again, just as Joystiq points out, if you are over 300 pounds playing Tony Hawk Ride is probably the least of your concerns.

Robomodo’s Tony Hawk Ride is expected to hit store shelves sometime in the fall of this year for around $120 bundled with the skateboard controller.

Tony Hawk: Ride priced, dated thanks to GameStop

Thanks to GameStop we now know that the latest addition to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, Tony Hawk: Ride, will be hitting store shelves on October 13th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii.

Furthermore, the game will come bundled with the skateboard peripheral that everyone has been talking with a price point of $119.99.

Of course, this date is subject to change as GameStop has a tendancy to do that but when Tony Hawk: Ride does drop the skateboard genre will never be the same. That is, if the developers deliver because EA’s skate is sure to put up a fight to the grave.

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Activision introduces Tony Hawk Ride

It’s no secret that EA’s skate pretty much demolished the Tony Hawks Pro Skater series in both gameplay value and innovation. Activision, however, isn’t going to stand by the side lines and watch one of their cash cows go to waste.

Enter Tony Hawk Ride, featured in the above introductory video. As you can see, Neversoft is really attemping to up the ante on this one even focusing the entire game around a skateboard shaped peripheral.

Will this be enough to thwart EA’s efforts? Probably not, but we’ll have to see. Oh yeah, get mad at Activision, not me, for including virtual 0 minutes of gameplay footage in the trailer.