skate. gets a proper name, platforms, cross-play and goes free-to-play

After revealing that people could start playing skate. sooner than planned, with the opening of their insider program, the team at Full Circle, who are making skate. have released the first video in a series they are calling The Board Room.

In the video below, Cuz Perry - Creative Director, Isabelle Mocquard - Head of Product Management, Dan McCulloch - Studio General Manager and Brandon Thomas - skate Community Member, talked up the game, revealing a few big things.

The first thing to note is that the game is officially called skate. yes, that is not a period to end a sentence, but rather part of the name, so all lowercase letters and then a full stop. So while this is technically Skate 5, if we count the Wii version of Skate, the team were quick to point out that this is not going to be the first in a series, rather that it will be a platform. So when fans request new features or changes, they will be done to this game, rather than saved for a sequel.

The setting for game is being called San Vansterdam and is set within the same world of San Vanelona, so there will be some familiar elements, but again as the game will evolve over its lifetime, expect the city to change and grow.

In terms of the biggest changes though, that award goes to the game being free-to-play and yes, EA and F2P are not known as being great examples of things, given their reliance on loot boxes. But the team have confirmed that there will be no pay to win mechanics, there will be no loot boxes and that the only microtransactions will be for purely cosmetic items, so like Fortnite and other games of that ilk.

As for platforms, the game is coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, complete with cross-play, so you can skate with your mates, no matter the platform. Of course, in the video they just say last-gen, next-gen and PC, so Switch could be considered, but given EA tend to ignore Switch, don’t hold your breath on it, oh and they also mentioned mobile, because why not.

There is so much more to learn, you really should give the video a watch,