EA's Skate Goes Full Circle

In other words, EA might do what it does best.

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Robert Scarpinito
February 27, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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Man, a Skate revival sounded so good like 5 years ago, right? The nostalgia of flicking the stick into a 360 flip or holding all the buttons to do a Christ Air sounds so much better than anything going on in the real world right now. Instead, we have a half-botched persistently online Skate revival that broke promises.

If you remember, Full Circle and EA said they wouldn’t charge money for any critical content, like maps. Then the first map expansion came with a price tag. The game's player base has dwindled since its launch day. Now, the development studio has been hit with layoffs in a corporate post charmingly titled, “Skate’s Next Chapter.”

Full Circle is still committed to developing more and better according to player feedback, but it’s hard to be confident when they’ll be down some people. I can only hope the people who were laid off land on their feet.

I’m reminded of the time that one EA executive made the bold claim that single-player games are finished. Sure, big money can only be mined from the veins of live-service online games. Everyone wants a piece of Fortnite's pie. But the irony of this story shows that maybe a single-player, one-and-done Skate game that requires less resources to make and maintain would have fared better.

I don’t want to be a downer, but the writing feels like it's on the wall for Full Circle. EA is no stranger to shutting down studios, even beloved ones. There’s history of this behavior dating back to Westwood Studios in the early 2000s. In fact, the studio behind the original Skate games, EA Black Box, was shut down in 2013. So this story might, punfortuantely, come full circle for Full Circle.

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