The skateboarding legend didn’t get the chance to revamp Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4… instead, he’s trying to build the biggest skate park in the metaverse.

Hawk recently announced plans to do it with a virtual world called The Sandbox and Autograph, an NFT platform. Tony Hawk Land will be a brand new location in The Sandbox that will be part virtual real estate and part amusement park. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, users can buy virtual plots of land for their cryptocurrency and trade voxel assets, in-game items, as NFTs. Autograph will create the NFTs, which will be based on Tony Hawk, his skateboards, gear and clothing.

According to the press release, “The Sandbox will make these NFTs interoperable in its open metaverse, turning Autograph’s high-fidelity avatars into 3D voxel versions that have in-game functionality for experiences, adding utility and value for their owners.” Hawk wrote: “I have been a fan of new technology all my life – from the first videogames and home computers with CGI capabilities – so I am fascinated by the metaverse and excited to bring our culture into the virtual landscape of The Sandbox.”

More than three hundred partnerships have already been formed in the virtual world, including Ubisoft (Rabbids), The Walking Dead, Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Deadmau5, The Smurfs, the Care Bears, and Atari (which is related in name only to Nolan Bushnell’s original company). The problem is that NFT sales fell to a twelve-month low in June (as the cryptocurrency market also fell hard) from three trillion dollars in November 2021 to below one trillion!

The sad thing here is that we weren’t joking in the first sentence: Hawk himself confirmed that a remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 was planned, but Vicarious Visions, which remade the first two games, first moved from Activision to Blizzard, and then merged into the company, so they ceased to exist. Congratulations to them for their brilliant decision.

Source: VGC