Skate. Enters Early Access Today, First Season to Start in October
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Key points
- Skate. has entered Early Access as of Sept. 16, 2025.
- The game can be downloaded for free, as the developers adopted a free-to-play model, which was a first for the series.
- The first season of the game will start in October.
On Sept. 16, 2025, skate., the latest entry to EA’s Skate franchise, has entered early access. Players can now download the game on their respective platforms free of charge, as the developers have adopted a free-to-play scheme for the first time in the series.
The press release accompanying the announcement mentioned that the game will fully support cross-platform and cross-progression between the different consoles and platforms on which the game is available.
Skate. will also add new areas, challenges, events, brand partners, cosmetics and music each season. The first season of the game will begin in October and will bring two seasonal events, a battle pass, updates and more.
Seasons 2 and 3 will add features such as party voice chat, replay editor improvements, new character customization options, leaderboards and new tricks like Impossibles and Darkslides.
The Flick-It system will return to the game after being gone for years. The press release mentioned that it was “meticulously resurrected and expanded for even more precision and depth of control.”
It has been over a decade since the last Skate game, Skate 3, was released. It was released back in 2010, at a time when a Skate game was being released annually.
