One of Electronic Arts' (EA) oldest game franchises, Skate, is officially making its major, highly anticipated return after years of quiet absence. Specifically, it's been 15 years since 2010's Skate 3 was released, and five years since the publisher announced a new entry for the series was in development.
That entry isn't titled Skate 4 — perhaps the developers were put off by gamers jokingly flooding game show chats with "SKATE 4???" at the start of every world premiere for years — but instead, skate., a free-to-play live service take on the skateboarding game that launched into Early Access on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC (Steam, Epic Games, EA), PS5, and PS4 on Tuesday.
