Looks like Tony Hawk (the video game brand) is taking another leap into the future with something called THRide which is apparently being launched at the E3 Expo the first week of June. Here’s what Tony said on Twitter this morning:
Here is the info on our new game (finally!) Warning: highly addictive once you get on board http://bit.ly/ELtc6 . . .The board controller is a marvel of new technology. Responds like a real skateboard, you can even go for grabs and the sensors detect it.
Illusion Labs takes their iPhone game Touch Grind to a much larger screen. Our question: if you’re going to fingerboard on a table, why not really fingerboard on a table?
Last night we downloaded an upgrade to the iPhone/iPod Touch game Vans Sk8 Pool Service (which is now only $2.99 for a limited time) and it reminded us that we still haven’t posted our review of what is probably the best skate game for the iPhone? So here it is two months late:
Our copy of Vans SK8 Pool Service arrived from Vans in a box on a brand new 8 gig Apple iPod Touch. How cool is that? We popped that thing open and began playing the game right away.
Follow the jump for a little overview of what we experienced. [click to continue…]
It’s possible. When it happens it will definitely give Vans Sk8 Pool Service some pretty strong competition, right? But we’re not exactly convinced on this one just yet.
For all the glee we feel at the demise of print publications there are times when we do actually back print. Concussion Magazine has always been a magazine pretty much beyond criticism. It was raw, honest, straight-forward, and had no problem running pictures of naked girls.
Regular photo contributors Brendan Kline and Brooks Fritz have in effect taken over the publication of Concussion. Davoud and Jonathan are still there in an advisory capacity, or as “training wheels” as they say, for a couple issues.
Rocking good news. And with Brendan behind the wheel we know the magazine is only going to get better.
The story of how Spike Jonze brought Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are to the silver screen will probably fill a couple books someday, but for now there is the We Love You So blog that was launched last night. Here’s how the site is explained:
In October 2009 Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are will hit movie theaters worldwide. . . The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees. . . This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality. . . Keep reading…
The Hawk Family spent a romantic Mother’s Day in the ER room of a local hospital after Tony’s wife Lhotse “crushed her hand in our automatic gate” according to messages on Tony Hawk’s twitter account. And if that wasn’t enough, while they were waiting to have Lhotse’s hand examined two hospital employees came by for autographs. Here’s how Tony put it:
ER: L sitting on bed in pain, me changing K’s diaper behind her. 2 hosp employees come in to ask for autographs and stand waiting. REALLY???
Lhotse’s escaped with “multiple fractures to ring finger,” but her rings wedging in the gate apparently saved the rest of her hand from even more damage. Get well, soon.
Timebomb Trading, Canada’s action distributor of Etnies, Emerica, és, thirty-two, Dragon, LRG and RVCA, has a brand new original art piece in their HQ thanks to Randy Layborne. And it looks pretty nice.
Check out all the details on Randy’s flicker account.
