{"id":193,"date":"2008-01-18T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:06:32","slug":"vans-iphone-skateboarding-game-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Vans iPhone Skateboarding Game Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fingerfrac.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fingerfrac.jpg','popup','width=463,height=371,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fingerfrac-tm.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fingerfrac\" \/><\/a>For a while this week <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vans<\/a><\/strong> was getting credit for a new <strong>skateboarding<\/strong> game for <strong>Apple&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>iPhone<\/strong> called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/345842\/an-iphone-game-that-doesnt-completely-suck\" target=\"_blank\">Finger Fracture<\/a><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>however, someone pointed out to the editors at the <strong>Kotaku<\/strong> video game blog that all the screen shots for the &#8220;new game&#8221; were simply lifted from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyhawksproject8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Project 8<\/a><\/strong> and Photoshopped on to the iPhone. Aside from being a complete hoax, what this really shows is how much play a skate\/snow\/surf brand could get in the tech media for launching a solid iPhone action sports game. Anyone listening?<br \/>\n<strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/345842\/an-iphone-game-that-doesnt-completely-suck\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while this week Vans was getting credit for a new skateboarding game for Apple&#8217;s iPhone called Finger Fracture, however, someone pointed out to the editors at the Kotaku video game blog that all the screen shots for the &#8220;new game&#8221; were simply lifted from Tony Hawk&#8217;s Project 8 and Photoshopped on to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}