With free-to-play skateboarding title Skate having come out just last month, EA and developer Full Circle have revealed a new set of cosmetics that will be hitting the in-game store. These cosmetics have been showcased in a video posted to social media platform X – which you can check out below. Interestingly, alongside a host of clothing options and skateboard decks, the latest set of cosmetics also includes a tie-in with another title developed by an EA-owned developer – Dead Space.
Skate players can spend 3,350 San Van Bucks – valued at just over $40 – to buy an Isaac Clarke-themed set of cosmetics. This set includes an outfit that will allow players to look like they are wearing the armour set used by Dead Space protagonist Isaac Clarke. Unfortunately, however, the quality of the cosmetic set is quite shoddy, with it essentially looking like a store-bought costume that one might wear for Halloween.
Along with the armour set itself, the Isaac Clarke bundle also comes with cosmetic options for the skateboard, including a necromorph-themed deck, skateboard wheels with Marker-related symbols on them, and a set of stickers with references to different things from throughout the Dead Space games. The set is capped off with a special stomping emote, mimicking Clarke’s own stomps from Dead Space for when he’s trying to finish off an enemy.
This update to Skate’s in-game store coincides with the start of the skateboarding title’s first season. The update, which was detailed earlier this month, brings with it a host of new content to the game, including 40 new challenges and more than 200 new cosmetic items for players to unlock. Along with this, Skate has also gotten a brand new area to explore and skate through. The season also brought with it the first two seasonal events to Skate – Skate-o-Ween and 7-Ply Maple Harvest – as well as the Skate Pass.
EA and Full Circle have also outlined future planned updates for Skate, which extend into the next two seasons. Season 2, slated to start in December, will bring with it a brand new co-op game mode, two new seasonal events, new tricks that players can pull off, along with improvements to the replay editor and in-game party voice chat. Season 3, on the other hand, will likely start in February, and will bring with it player-created parks, new game modes, more things to collect in the open world, and new skateboarding tricks.
While Skate had spent quite a bit of time in playtesting, the title was finally released as an Early Access game on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S back in September. On launch day, the PC version of Skate through Steam was off to a rough start, managing to get only 47 percent positive reviews, giving it a mixed rating. This came despite the title getting more than 81,000 concurrent players on launch date.
Players have written extensively about their problems with Skate, which range from the lack of classic franchise features like death races, to poor communication options, and repetitive mission design.
