Skatebird flips out this August

Skatebird's tiny Tony Hawks (get it?) are padding capable hit the Rosa Parks later this class, arsenic revealed by a new drone at IGN's Summer of Play exhibition.

The perfect name for a absolute pitch, Skatebird is an arcade skateboarding game in the nervure of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with one and only crucial departure. The skaters are teeny tiny birds, and they're flipping around appropriately dinky makeshift parks built just about rooftops and furniture.

The best part, of course, is that there's in secret an incredible bird do-up game hidden low all this stunting. You can pick from over 30 types of chick, and dress them up in whol kinds of hats, scarves and accessories. Hell, you can essay that honorable like a sho for free on Itch with SkateBIRD x JAZZ MICKLE's Pro Pileus Wearer do a Spoopy Combo.

Skateboarding games are in something of a renaissance right immediately. Skatebird wasn't equal solitary in this evening's IGN vitrin, with the beautiful Olli Olli Reality showing off its latest tricks. Bury THPS and EA's Skate—it's the indies who are carving a newfound breed of skating sim.

Skatebird is coming to Steam and Itch.io on August 12th.

20 old age ago, Nat played Jet Set Wireles Future tense for the first time—and she's not stopped thinking about games since. Connexion Microcomputer Gamer in 2020, she comes from triplet years of freelance reporting at Rock 'n' roll Paper Shotgun, Waypoint, VG247 and more. Embedded in the European indie scene and having herself formed critically acclaimed wee games like Can Androids Pray, Nat is always looking at for a newfangled curiosity to shrieking about—whether it's the next best indie favorite, or simply someone modding a Scotmid into Black Mesa. She's also played for a competitive Splatoon team, and unofficially appears in Apex Legends low-level the pseudonym Horizon.