After seeing how Tony Hawk: Ride was nothing short of a flop, Robomodo is going to have to do something good with their next game if they are going to continue to exist. Well, Tony Hawk has revealed the name via the below Tweet:

Tony Hawk: Shred. There, I said it. Actually, I named it. Somewhere a PR team is reeling.

It’s been said in the past that the new game will utilize the skateboard peripheral that the first game introduced. Bummer, I just want some classic Tony Hawk Pro Skater back.

Despite getting terrible reviews from pretty much every corner of the gaming community, Robomodo has today deemed Tony Hawk: Ride a “retail success”. Wait, what? Yep, you read that right, Robomodo has said that the company has grown by 20% since the games release and is looking to expand an additional 17%.

President Josh Tsui had the following to say:

“Our culture is focused on enabling game designers and artists to innovate, while providing them with proper management oversight and technology support. As evidence from our recent game release, Robomodo supports out-of-the-box thinking and new creative ways to approach gameplay.”

Creative ways? Yes. Playable? Not so much. Robomodo better get their act together and get that Tony Hawk: Ride sequel up to tip top shape before releasing it to the public or they are going to fold as fast as they grew.

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Tony Hawk: Ride seemed like an awesome idea, control an onscreen skater with a skateboard deck. Unfortunately the idea of the game is about where the awesomeness ends as it really failed to deliver. The skateboard deck was unresponsive to the point where the game was damn near unplayable and it wasn’t exactly eye candy.

However, the game’s not-so-successful launch hasn’t put a damper on Tony Hawk’s drive as he’s already talking with Robomodo about the next game. Below is a tweet from Tony Hawk that let us in on the information:

“Just met with @robomodo about our next project and it’s already much better than I expected”

If you’ve been paying attention, Tony Hawk was pretty optimistic about the first game as well. Let’s hope Mr. Hawk and Robomodo give us something we can actually play this time around.

If you didn’t know, Tony Hawk Ride hit store shelves just about a week ago with little to no media coverage (probably considering the fact that it wasn’t, well, very good). The title’s biggest selling point is the skateboard peripheral that it uses exclusively but the fact that  the board only works with one game had gamers a bit unsure as to whether or not they will purchase it.

Luckily, Mr. Hawk himself has come forth today in an interview with GameSpot UK to let us know that not only is a sequel to the game in the works, but that the board will be utilized for future surfing and snowboarding titles.

There’s no telling on when these new titles will be hitting the shelves but we’ll be sure to keep you posted as more information is made known.

When Activision first announced that Tony Hawk Ride would feature a bundled skateboard controller, gamers everywhere rolled their eyes and pictured the peripheral collecting dust next to their Rock Band drums.

Well, according to Robomodo’s president, Joshua Tsui, you might want to keep the skateboard dusted off a bit longer:

It’s really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we’re concentrating on Tony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral. We look at it less as a peripheral, as more of a platform. The obvious ones are snowboarding and surfing and such, but there are a lot of games that can be used with this board, and we’re really excited to start working on those.

Tony Hawk Ride will be released for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii later this year.

Please, oh please Robomodo, simulate the hoverboard found in Back to the Future and let us zoom around New York City. Please?

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Here is an announcement that probably won’t apply to the majority of you, but for those whom it does concern Robomodo has recently announced that the controller for Tony Hawk Ride will allow for use by gamers 300 pounds and under. Anything over 300 pounds and the controller will presumably turn to dust.

Then again, just as Joystiq points out, if you are over 300 pounds playing Tony Hawk Ride is probably the least of your concerns.

Robomodo’s Tony Hawk Ride is expected to hit store shelves sometime in the fall of this year for around $120 bundled with the skateboard controller.

Forming independent studio Robomodo are 27 veterans of the once-dissolved team from Fight Night and Def Jam developer EA Chicago.

Robomodo president and unannounced game director Josh Tui revealed this to Gamasutra, noting that they are currently working on a “high profile extreme sports title” for Activision Blizzard. The publisher is yet to formally announce the game.

Members of the team who stayed back at EA were relocated to EA Canada, developing FaceBreaker and presumably working on a fourth installment in the Fight Night series.