Ubisoft Announces Shaun White Skateboarding

Shawn White skateboarding? had no idea the guy was good with skateboard

I think the editors of Shacknews and other gaming websites should boycott Ubisoft for treating its fans and paying customers like criminals. Gaming websites play an important part in generating interest in upcoming games, so why give attention to a company thats doing its best to kill PC gaming as we know it. Why assist in making these games profitable?

Publishers can threaten to pull out of the PC game market claiming that there is no money to be made due to piracy. I think that anyone who dares to use that excuse to force more DRM down our throats should indeed stop making PC games. Even if all the top-tier game developers and publishers simultaneously exited the PC gaming business, new developers will come in and fill that void (with much lower budgets), similar to what is happening with iPhone game development.

Even with rampant piracy, at some point an equilibrium will be reached between how much it costs to develop a game and how much profit a developer could expect in return. Adding non-DRM features for legitimate registered buyers would significantly increase that. Things like free or even paid-for DLC, beta keys to upcoming games, reduced price on future games, access to developer communities for modders, etc, all add a tremendous amount of value that can't be easily duplicated by downloading an ISO over the internet.

Is this a sequel to [Shaun White Snowboarding] that was done by Ubisoft?

I hope so, was a great snowboard game.

The last Shaun White game was a piece of crap, so there's only room to improve.

Tony Hawk is a legend, but needs to retire his games. S.K.A.T.E is beautiful, but camera angle is juuust a taad too steep, or way to far away.

I want a skate game where Ramping can be fun and intuitive. Hope White delivers a game as good as his Olympic Gold. That was just insane!