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Mod every skate game.
Guides, history and tools for every skate game, from Skate 3 and THUG Pro to Skater XL and Session. Skate 3 maps convert automatically between PS3, the native PC recomp and the Rust engine.
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All games →Skate 3
EA Black Box's 2010 finale, and the most actively modded skate game in 2026. It now has a native PC port, a custom online server, cross-platform map conversion and a Rust rewrite.
skate 2
The 2009 sequel set in New San Vanelona. Its city now runs inside Skate 3 and as a .skate map in the Rust engine.
skate.
The 2007 original, whose flick-it stick controls reinvented skate games. Today it's mostly played and lightly modded on emulators.
Skate It
The 2008 spin-off for Wii, DS and iOS that put flick-it on a Wii Balance Board and a touchscreen.
skate. (2025)
Full Circle's free-to-play Frostbite revival. It's online-only with kernel anti-cheat, so it can't be modded, but its maps can be studied and recreated elsewhere.
Tony Hawk's (classic PC)
Neversoft's THPS2 through American Wasteland on PC, kept alive by THUG Pro, PARTYMOD, ClownJob'd and OpenSpy online play.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
Vicarious Visions' 2020 Unreal Engine remake. THPSPro on Nexus Mods brings in levels from THPS3 through Proving Ground.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
The 2025 remake. It has a deep official Create-A-Park with online sharing, and PC players get Nexus mods including THPSPro.
Skater XL
Easy Day Studios' Unity skate sim, built to be modded. It has thousands of user maps on mod.io, gear mods, and community multiplayer that came years before the official version.
Session: Skate Sim
Crea-ture Studios' Unreal Engine sim. Mods aren't officially supported, but there's a big community map scene through Session Mod Manager and the Illusory mod unlocker.
Skate Style
Zellah Games' upcoming PC skate game, announced in February 2026 with full modding support as a core feature.
Start here
All guides →- Play Skate 3 natively on PCInstall skate3recomp on Windows, Linux or macOS from your own Xbox 360 disc image.
- Install community maps with the Level LoaderImport any number of Skate 3 DLC map packs into the recomp and boot straight into the one you want.
- Convert PS3 maps to the recomp and .skateTurn a PS3 Skate 3 custom map into an Xbox 360 DLC pack for the recomp and a .skate map for the Rust engine. Use the GUI, the CLI, or skatemods.
- Mod Skate 3 on RPCS3Where Skate 3 files live in RPCS3, how to install DLC and custom maps, texture mods, and how to get online again.
Lately in Skate 3
Full history →- skatemods.com: conversion in the cloud
- Clean-room web build · Nakas
- New San Van converts whole · Nakas & randyadr
- skate. (2025) maps → Skate 3 · Nakas
- RenderWare Audio documented · Nakas
Host your Skate 3 maps here
Upload a map from PS3, the recomp or the Rust engine and get every other format. Accounts and uploads are coming next. The conversion pipeline already runs, and it's open source.