Tony Hawk revealed that he briefly worked on a new remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series alongside Vicarious Visions and Activision before the project’s cancellation. According to what was revealed by the skater during a Livestream, the publisher and the development studio were intent on continuing the remake series with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, a new chapter with remakes of the third and fourth chapters. Still, in the end, Activision was forced to cancel the project due to the transformation of Vicarious Visions into Blizzard Albany.
For the uninitiated, Blizzard Entertainment acquired Vicarious Visions in January 2021, after thirty years of activity and several successes, including Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 himself. Just in 2021, the software house had begun to discuss a potential remake of chapters 3 and 4 together with Activision and Tony Hawk. Still, last spring, Blizzard decided to incorporate the studio and turn it into a subsidiary, so the project was deleted. Vicarious Visions no longer exists: the studio has become Blizzard Albany and works only in support of major series such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo.
“I wish I could say we have something in the works, but Vicarious Visions has been dismantled, and Activision has all its problems, so I don’t know what the future will bring,” said Tony Hawk during the Livestream. “The plan was to make Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4, but ultimately Vicarious was absorbed, Activision started looking for other developers .. and eventually everything got canceled.” The skater went on to explain that Activision would try to entrust the IP to other studios, but not trusting anyone like Vicarious Visions, he would ultimately decide to discard the project permanently.
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