The new SHRED web site is packed with exciting gameplay tips! Kids will be on the deck mastering killer moves after viewing dozens of training videos that demonstrate over 50 jaw-dropping in-game tricks, including everything from kickflips and grabs to Tony’s signature 900! The site also showcases talent profiles of all the pro riders featured in Tony Hawk: SHRED, as well as a developer blog to keep fans up to speed with all the latest and greatest game news right from the source!
Tony Hawk has a new book out and this time he’s written it with his sister Pat Hawk (who has time to write their own books these days). It’s titled, How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO.
Fast Company spoke to Tony about the book and asked him what his biggest mistake has been.
I was 18 or 19 — I was just signing my name on the dotted line everywhere I went. This one company was making Velcro wallets — really bad pink and blue ones. Probably the worst part for me was it ripped off the Vision Street Wear logo and made them say TONY HAWK GEAR. I didn’t even see them until they were in the store. That was the tipping point for me: I learned not to allow someone else to use my likeness and my name like that.
We just can’t get enough of Shaun White around here and that’s about to change because Ubisoft, the makers of Shaun White Skateboarding, has just announced that Shaun’s game will soon support stereoscopic displays on 3DTVs, according to a post on Gamasutra.
Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title will use Sensio 3D technology, which Ubisoft last used in last year’s release of Avatar: The Game. . . “The gaming experience is very sensitive to image quality, and we know from past collaboration with Sensio that the company’s Sensio 3D format delivers the highest-quality images,” said Shaun White Skateboarding Executive Producer Patrick Naud.
It will be great to see that rich, thick, forest of red hair flowing right out of the TV as Shaun shreds past. Wonder if Shaun will do some signature Oakley 3-D glasses to go along with it?
When the bloated former pop singer Britney Spears goes shopping for a new skateboard she heads straight to her local mall and drops in on Zumiez, according to a story on People.com.
Britney Spears had an active afternoon with her boys Preston and Jayden: The trio headed to the Westfield Topanga, the pop star’s neighborhood shopping mall in Canoga Park, Calif., where Spears stopped into Zumiez, a snowboarding and skateboarding shop.
Who better to guide a Wall Street Journal tour of the NYC Burton Store than long-time snowboard entrepreneur Rohan Marley. You can probably guess the rest.
We don’t follow and/or watch NBC/MTV’s Dew Tour, but like most of America we follow Shaun White. In Salt Lake City last weekend he whooped all the other vert dogs to win one on the Dew Tour and even landed the armadillo on his last air. The results looked like this:
1. Shaun White 94.75
2. Pierre-Luc Gagnon 90.50
3. Bucky Lasek 88.25
4 . Andy Macdonald 83.50
5 . Bob Burnquist 63.00
Last week Youtube.com began testing some live broadcasts with several different partners. In one of their tests they featured a live interview with Tony Hawk in conjunction with YoungHollywood.com and according to Techcrunch.com no one showed up.
Well, Tony Hawk just finished an appearance on Young Hollywood right now, and the number of viewers never went above 500, according to the view counter at the bottom of the player. For most of the segment, it was much less—at one point I saw 9 viewers, then 81. As a point of reference, when we livestream TechCrunch events, we often get 2,000 to 3,000 concurrent viewers, and that is without being promoted on YouTube’s homepage. So 500 viewers for Tony Hawk is really nothing.
Then again, we didn’t know Tony was going to be on. If he’d told us we could have rounded up a couple dozen more people, no problem.
Tony Hawk’s annual Stand Up For Skateparks Fund raising is going down in billionaire Ron Burkle Beverly Hills, California estate again this year. (As some might remember Burkle own’s Skateboarder Magazine parent company Source Interlink.)The October 17, 2010 event will feature a performance by Jane’s Addiction.
The exclusive event will feature games, activities, food, live and silent auctions, a Vert Demo by Tony Hawk and an all-star cast of pro skateboarders and BMX riders on Tony’s personal ramp, and a special set by Jane’s Addiction that promises to make for a unique, intimate, and one-of-a-kind event.
If you want to attend tickets are $350 a piece (on the low end) and $20,000 for the “Platinum Package” which allows the buyer to bring a 19 person entourage to the event, shower them in Tony Hawk gifts and goodness, and hang out with people like: Shaun White, Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Miley Cyrus, Michael Eisner, Jon Favreau, Mia Hamm, Mat Hoffman, Terry Kennedy, Chuck Liddell, Howie Mandel, Sal Masekela, and Paul Rodriguez, Jr.
She’s always up for a good time and Saturday (August 21) Stephanie Pratt was spotted at the 2010 Miss Malibu Pageant. . . The day before, Miss Pratt was out on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles with television presenter Sal Masekela for some retail therapy.
This fall BET will be airing a new reality show titled Being Terry Kennedy. The show reportedly follows TK around as he “becomes a mogul in skateboarding” and conquers “so much through that like music, fashion and actually being a family rooted person through it all,” according to an interview with the Atlanta Post.
