{"id":1727,"date":"2009-02-21T18:16:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T02:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:14:18","slug":"tony-hawk-game-to-utilize-skateboard-peripheral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard &#8211; Tony Hawk game to utilize skateboard peripheral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those looking to replicate a Japanese arcade in their living room have reason to celebrate: The next Tony Hawk skateboarding game, expected this fall, will utilize skateboard-like hardware in lieu of a traditional controller, according to The Cut Scene&#8217;s Ben Fritz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Cut Scene, Feb. 19: &#8230;two sources who have seen the game first hand have confirmed that it will indeed eschew controllers and rely on a board-like peripheral. I&#8217;m told it won&#8217;t be about precise balance (if you want to do that, just get a real skateboard). Instead it&#8217;ll be about grabbing and manipulating the board to pull of all the tricks for which &#8220;Tony Hawk&#8221; games are known. Because the peripheral does a lot more than just measure where players are standing, I&#8217;m told it&#8217;ll &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mlive.com\/manzero\/2009\/02\/tony_hawk_game_to_utilize_skat.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those looking to replicate a Japanese arcade in their living room have reason to celebrate: The next Tony Hawk skateboarding game, expected this fall, will utilize skateboard-like hardware in lieu of a traditional controller, according to The Cut Scene&#8217;s Ben Fritz. The Cut Scene, Feb. 19: &#8230;two sources who have seen the game first hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19262,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/19262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}