Since EA’s Skate 3 releasing back in 2010, fans of the skateboarding genre have been waiting for the next title in the genre. With Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 releasing half a decade later, the game was received below average and many players were left disappointed with how the game was shipped out for launch.
Coming to E3 this year, Xbox revealed Session from Canadian-based developer crea-ture Studios. Influenced from older titles in the genre, Session wants to bring back the same feeling titles before gave years before. For those who don’t know, the game is currently still in prototype stages and those who supported the title on Kickstarter have access to the latest build of the game.
One backer who goes by Nightspeeds on YouTube, revealed on a recent video that the upcoming skating sim will be arriving to early access in Q1 of next year.
His video titled ‘The Future Of Session – Early Access, Animations and Funding’, he discusses the progress that was made for the game since it’s E3 debut back in June. With an increase in hands to improve the game’s animations and funding for the game to bring the game to early access. Canadian Media Fund (CMF) is backing the kickstarted project and influenced the decision for the early access release next year.
Nightspeeds went on to say that the early access version of the game will be available for both Steam and Xbox, meaning Xbox Game Preview. As of right now, there’s no official word from the studio on Session coming to early access. But hearing from the YouTuber as he’s a backer for the game as well as speaks to the developer, gives implication that the information is likely true.
As crea-ture’s Session is making its way to early access, it’s nice to notice the differences that makes the game unique. Like the free flip mode that allows the player to flip the board as much as they want in a any direction until they decide to catch it.
Session will be available for early access on both Xbox and Steam in early 2019.
