Newly released today:



features
Double Your Bag of Tricks—Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Van with new tricks like one-foots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more.
Move It! —Get off your board and move stuff to create your ultimate spots to skate and destroy.
Change the Face of the City—You can’t rebuild the scene alone—call on your crew to uncap the spots, drain the pools, and provide some personal security.
Hall of Meat—Punish your skater in the harshest ways possible with all-new bone-crushing bail physics. The new Thrasher Hall of Meat mode features brutal slam challenges complete with gestures to customize your gnarliest bails.
Create Spots—After you’ve moved stuff around to create the best spots, show them off. Upload your custom spots, download other gamers’ stuff to skate, and vote on whose spots rule.
Even More Online Skating—Roll seamlessly between single player and online skate sessions and compete for cold hard cash and/or glory in the new competitive online modes.
Express yourself—Use the Graphics Creator to build custom graphics, then slap them on your hats, hoodies, and decks. Now that you’ve personalized your skater, film your sickest lines with the expanded skate.Reel and share your vids with the world.

description
The revolution continues. Skate 2 ups the ante in delivering all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding by letting you skate it your way – both on and off the board.

Flaunt your style like never before. Shred the streets of New San Vanelona with double your bag of tricks and show off your skills with the all-new skate.Reel. Or personalize a challenge by moving in-world objects to create your own spots which can then be uploaded, shared and experienced by others around the world.

In Skate 2, San Vanelona is nothing like you remembered. It's been five long years since your mysterious disappearance from the skate scene, and much has changed in the wake of "the disaster-too-gnarly-to-be-named." After a mass evacuation, Mongocorp rebuilt the city but their zealous protection of private property has put a damper on the once thriving skate population. Your mission is to rebuild your career and revive the New San Vanelona skate scene. You have to take back the city ... one spot at a time.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-34py.html ...

Newly released today:




features
Double Your Bag of Tricks—Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Van with new tricks like one-foots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more.
Move It! —Get off your board and move stuff to create your ultimate spots to skate and destroy.
Change the Face of the City—You can’t rebuild the scene alone—call on your crew to uncap the spots, drain the pools, and provide some personal security.
Hall of Meat—Punish your skater in the harshest ways possible with all-new bone-crushing bail physics. The new Thrasher Hall of Meat mode features brutal slam challenges complete with gestures to customize your gnarliest bails.
Create Spots—After you’ve moved stuff around to create the best spots, show them off. Upload your custom spots, download other gamers’ stuff to skate, and vote on whose spots rule.
Even More Online Skating—Roll seamlessly between single player and online skate sessions and compete for cold hard cash and/or glory in the new competitive online modes.
Express yourself—Use the Graphics Creator to build custom graphics, then slap them on your hats, hoodies, and decks. Now that you’ve personalized your skater, film your sickest lines with the expanded skate.Reel and share your vids with the world.

description
The revolution continues. Skate 2 ups the ante in delivering all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding by letting you skate it your way – both on and off the board.

Flaunt your style like never before. Shred the streets of New San Vanelona with double your bag of tricks and show off your skills with the all-new skate.Reel. Or personalize a challenge by moving in-world objects to create your own spots which can then be uploaded, shared and experienced by others around the world.

In Skate 2, San Vanelona is nothing like you remembered. It's been five long years since your mysterious disappearance from the skate scene, and much has changed in the wake of "the disaster-too-gnarly-to-be-named." After a mass evacuation, Mongocorp rebuilt the city but their zealous protection of private property has put a damper on the once thriving skate population. Your mission is to rebuild your career and revive the New San Vanelona skate scene. You have to take back the city ... one spot at a time.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-34pz.html ...

Newly released today:




features
Double Your Bag of Tricks—Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Van with new tricks like one-foots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more.
Move It! —Get off your board and move stuff to create your ultimate spots to skate and destroy.
Change the Face of the City—You can’t rebuild the scene alone—call on your crew to uncap the spots, drain the pools, and provide some personal security.
Hall of Meat—Punish your skater in the harshest ways possible with all-new bone-crushing bail physics. The new Thrasher Hall of Meat mode features brutal slam challenges complete with gestures to customize your gnarliest bails.
Create Spots—After you’ve moved stuff around to create the best spots, show them off. Upload your custom spots, download other gamers’ stuff to skate, and vote on whose spots rule.
Even More Online Skating—Roll seamlessly between single player and online skate sessions and compete for cold hard cash and/or glory in the new competitive online modes.
Express yourself—Use the Graphics Creator to build custom graphics, then slap them on your hats, hoodies, and decks. Now that you’ve personalized your skater, film your sickest lines with the expanded skate.Reel and share your vids with the world.

description
The revolution continues. Skate 2 ups the ante in delivering all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding by letting you skate it your way – both on and off the board.

Flaunt your style like never before. Shred the streets of New San Vanelona with double your bag of tricks and show off your skills with the all-new skate.Reel. Or personalize a challenge by moving in-world objects to create your own spots which can then be uploaded, shared and experienced by others around the world.

In Skate 2, San Vanelona is nothing like you remembered. It's been five long years since your mysterious disappearance from the skate scene, and much has changed in the wake of "the disaster-too-gnarly-to-be-named." After a mass evacuation, Mongocorp rebuilt the city but their zealous protection of private property has put a damper on the once thriving skate population. Your mission is to rebuild your career and revive the New San Vanelona skate scene. You have to take back the city ... one spot at a time.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-34pz.html ...

We first wrote about newsgame Airport Security back in 2006, today Ian Bogost reports that an iPhone version of the game is now available in the App Store.

Jetset is still about the absurdity of security at airports, but now it comes with a bunch of extra airplane-safe bells and whistles. In the game you play as a security office making sure that people don't bring a constantly changing list of prohibited items onto a plane.

The items, all inspired by real events in airport security, have to be plucked from the lines of waiting people. The game includes 100 airports, a new ability to strip search and high score tracking. Jetset also automatically selects the airport you're playing in based on where you are actually based using the iPod's location service.

The $5 game lets you collect virtual souvenirs from airports and save them up to redeem Jetset travel trophies. Sounds like a neat addition to an already fun and provocative game.

http://kotaku.com/5136101/take-airpo...rport-security ...

Financial publication Forbes takes a look at some of the things people are still willing to spend money on in the face of the recession, and of course, our favorite hobby makes the cut.

The economy might be tanking, but we still need our stuff. Without our stuff, what would we be? Stuffless...and no one wants that. Forbes details 10 of the stuffs that people are still willing to hand over their precious, precious money for. Video games were the second item on their list, right after smart phones.


Consumers today desire affordable escapism, and video games fall into that category. Two top-selling games—"Madden NFL '09" and the "Wii Fit"—sold 5 million units combined in the third quarter of 2008, according to NPD.

Other items that made the list include toy building sets, car maintenance items, and personal hygiene items. I never thought I would see video games in the same list as personal hygiene items, but there you go.

http://kotaku.com/5136429/video-game...e-still-buying ...

Financial publication Forbes takes a look at some of the things people are still willing to spend money on in the face of the recession, and of course, our favorite hobby makes the cut.

The economy might be tanking, but we still need our stuff. Without our stuff, what would we be? Stuffless...and no one wants that. Forbes details 10 of the stuffs that people are still willing to hand over their precious, precious money for. Video games were the second item on their list, right after smart phones.


Consumers today desire affordable escapism, and video games fall into that category. Two top-selling games—"Madden NFL '09" and the "Wii Fit"—sold 5 million units combined in the third quarter of 2008, according to NPD.

Other items that made the list include toy building sets, car maintenance items, and personal hygiene items. I never thought I would see video games in the same list as personal hygiene items, but there you go.

http://kotaku.com/5136429/video-game...e-still-buying ...

Sony is in serious trouble and plans to announce details of a restructuring plan soon. The company is expected to confirm its first operating loss in 14 years and reports have circulated that it plans to close plants and, possibly, even whole divisions.

The Financial Times reports that Sony CEO Howard Stringer is facing serious resistance from the 'old guard' in Japan to fix (or save, depending on your perspective) the company. Certainly one of the more interesting pieces coming out of the alleged plan, is that Stringer wants to shift Sony's focus from hardware to software. If true, the PlayStation brand, along with Sony Computer Entertainment, would presumably be the main benefactors of such an upheaval.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/21/re...-old-guard-re/ ...

Sony is in serious trouble and plans to announce details of a restructuring plan soon. The company is expected to confirm its first operating loss in 14 years and reports have circulated that it plans to close plants and, possibly, even whole divisions.

The Financial Times reports that Sony CEO Howard Stringer is facing serious resistance from the 'old guard' in Japan to fix (or save, depending on your perspective) the company. Certainly one of the more interesting pieces coming out of the alleged plan, is that Stringer wants to shift Sony's focus from hardware to software. If true, the PlayStation brand, along with Sony Computer Entertainment, would presumably be the main benefactors of such an upheaval.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/21/re...-old-guard-re/ ...

Lest we forget our history, my GDmag coworker Jeff reminded me that almost everything Kaz Hirai is saying about the PS3 was previously said about the Saturn. Take note of the quote I linked below. Now read this statement from the aforelinked Saturn whitepaper: "This growth won't be possible on competing systems that offer a simpler architecture. It may be easier in some ways for developers to create programs for the competition because there's less to learn and work with from a technology standpoint -- but that means that developers are much more likely to run up against the limits of the system in a short span of time. The simpler structure of competing architectures also increases the chance that games will be "ported" from other systems (other game systems or even personal computers), which results in games that are generic and not optimized for performance and special features.

In contrast, the sophistication of the Sega Saturn pays off for both developers and consumers alike over the long term. Developers will continue to discover new ways to wield their creative talents, and game players will have an ongoing supply of new, inventive, out-there, beyond-cool titles for their Sega Saturn systems. "

That kind of logic is destined for failure. At the same time the Saturn is one of my favorite systems ever. Does this mean the PS3 will eventually be one of my favorite systems? The industry has changed enough that developers no long really "choose" a console, but rather develop somewhat agnostically and port as they can. The current climate does not seem conducive to the kind of quirky hardware differentiation of times past. So with that in mind, Sony had better learn from the past, of the ghost of Sega will come and have its revenge!

http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/002610.html ...