{"id":120776,"date":"2017-09-20T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120776"},"modified":"2017-09-20T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:15:59","slug":"session-could-be-the-skate-sequel-we-never-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120776-session-could-be-the-skate-sequel-we-never-got","title":{"rendered":"Session could be the Skate sequel we never got"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of skateboarding and video games will unanimously agree that Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Skate 3 were the pinnacle of skating games. However, the THPS series has lost its lustre and Skate has been dormant for quite some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, a new skating sim is in development\u00a0\u2014 Session.<\/p>\n<p>Session comes from French developers crea-ture Studios, and looks to embrace the heart and soul of EA&#8217;s Skate franchise, but bring it to the current generation of consoles and PC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Session-game-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Session takes cues from the likes of Skate, it has it&#8217;s own identity.\u00a0The developers explain that they don&#8217;t want players to worry about how much point their tricks are worth, but rather the goal of mastering tricks and the dynamic controls.<\/p>\n<p>That idea extends to the camera system too, as it&#8217;s inspired by the late 90&#8217;s skate movies, giving the player a new and more dynamic perspective on their tricks and the opportunity to work on their very own in-game movie.<\/p>\n<p>The game is still in development, with no clear release date at the moment, but the studio is updating eager fans via it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/actionofcreate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest dev video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Factionofcreate%2Fvideos%2F1335485746605651%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=476\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/session-is-the-skate-sequel-weve-always-wanted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/120412-the-most-popular-piracy-sites-among-south-africans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The most popular piracy sites among South Africans<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new skating sim is on the way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":120778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[15397,1853,25092,25094,13740,25096,10065],"class_list":["post-120776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-pc","tag-playstation4","tag-session","tag-session-game","tag-skateboarding","tag-skating","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120780,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120776\/revisions\/120780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}