The skateboarding gaming scene has been stagnant for a long while. The Tony Hawk legacy effectively died in 2007 with Proving Ground, and any attempts to resurrect it outside of an HD remaster of bits of Tony Hawk 2 and 3 have been unsuccessful at best. Skate 3 was back in 2010. There isn’t a whole lot of respite out there as someone who still goes back to THUG to get his fix.
But with games like Skater XL out in the wild trying to keep the dream alive, there’s a chance the subgenre could come back with a vengeance.
Source: Destructoid Skater XL, currently in (very, very) Early Access, has promise