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Bad news from the Electronic Arts camp: Scott Blackwood, the exececutive producer on Skate, brings word that the game's demo (set to be on Xbox Live Marketplace now) has been delayed. In a post over at the EA Forums, Blackwood breaks the bad news to a flood of angry gamers, stating server complications as the culprit.

"As you know," he writes, "we are trying something completely new for an Xbox Live Marketplace demo by allowing people to play the game and upload footage to our Skate Web site. The thing is: the skate.reel video upload functionality is more technically complex than a standard offline demo."

Once the demo was submitted to Microsoft for the dreaded certification process, the team was "blindsided" by unavoidable server related issues that needed to be addressed. For once, it appears, MS is off the hook when it comes to this delay.

Blackwood hopes the delay will be minimal (less than a week), and has already stated that EA has sent back a new version of the demo to MS for certification. Frantically refresh the EA forums for up-to-the-minute information, or just play through the BioShock demo for the sixth time while you wait patiently.

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Kif 's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 10:20
Kif
The more I hear about this game, the harder I find it to care about Proving Grounds. Skate. for the win, assuming I can actually play it on a demo of course.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 10:35
AngelsDontBurn
Skateboarding video games are cereal business. I look forward to playing this only because I plan on bailing everywhere and being entertained when the ragdoll kicks in. Watching the skater fall into painful positions and throwing them into nearby objects. OH JOY!

In all honesty, it's good to know that a new skateboarding game is coming and it's apparently not a flop.
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 10:43
Professor Pew
We've been waiting for a good skateboarding game since THPS2-3, so we can wait a bit longer :P
elagz's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 11:06
elagz
huuuuuuuuu! i cant wait any longer... at least theres real skateboarding
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 11:28
s0lesurviv0r
How much can you customize a character? I really want to give him these shoes.
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 11:47
Snaileb
Kotaku just hotlinked us guys.
jayzn's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 13:42
jayzn
statement:"The skate.reel video upload functionality is more technically complex than a standard offline demo."

translation: we dunno why our thingee don't work
The Faux-Bot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 14:10
The Faux-Bot
The Skate Forum is pretty painful lately, just hundreds of guys trying to find ways to distract themselves until this demo drops. Not me though, I'm too cool for that shit. I just lurk in the background.
TheExit's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2007 19:12
TheExit
Any updates on this yet?
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