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EA’s Skate is launching as an early access title in 2025

Back in 2022, EA announced plans to bring back its cult-hit sports game, Skate. The new game has been going through extensive playtests, some of which have leaked in their entirety, for a couple of years and now, the official release is just around the corner. 

Officially titled ‘skate.’, the new game in the series will be free to play with “cosmetic and convenience items”, which likely equates to some kind of XP boost in addition to different deck designs in the game.

Skate will be launching in 2025, initially as an ‘Early Access' title, in fact, this might be EA's first true ‘early access' release, a tool that the company likely should have used a few times in the past after a string of day-one issues for high-profile games, most notably, Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 2042.

With this new Skate game, EA will be going in a ‘live service’ direction, with this title expected to act as a platform for future content updates for years post-release.

If you want to play Skate even earlier than 2025, then you'll be pleased to know that the insider testing program is still live on PC and soon, it will be available to console gamers as well.

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