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GameSpy hung up in 2014. We picked the phone back up. We don't sell the game and we don't ship it: you bring the 2003 PC copy you already own, the patch brings it back online. A few megabytes, a new executable and the scripts it needs. Your levels, skaters and soundtrack stay right where they are.

Patches only, no game data inside. Every platform skates the same servers: Mac kids versus Windows kids versus the one guy on Arch.

Patch 1.2 · 16 Oct 2026 · Release notes

Players : --

-- Total players

Skaters with a profile.

Users : --

-- Currently online

In the lobbies and games right now, guests too.

Games : --

-- Rooms open

Hosted right now. Go crash one.

Calling the server…

Every ranked game ends up here. Best scores and combos on the twelve ranked levels, all time and this month, plus the top-rated skaters. Your deck fills up as your rating climbs.

Best Scores

Scores Combos Players

All levels

Table Decks

Calling the server…

Lists refresh every minuteRank = rating ÷ 2,900 × 10 · ranked games on 12 levels

The original online menus, wired to a brand-new backend. No mods to learn, no launcher, and no account needed to drop in as a guest.

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  Lobbies & chat

  Four regional lobbies plus a beginners' park, each with a chat box for strategy, trash talk and “gg”. Keep it skate-friendly.

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  Homie list

  Make a profile, add your crew, see who's online and what they're up to, then jump straight into their game.

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  Host or crash

  Up to eight skaters a room: Trick Attack, Graffiti, King of the Hill, Slap!, Capture the Flag and the rest of the classics.

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  Router-proof

  Built-in NAT punch-through. No port-forwarding rituals, no sacrificing a goat to your router.

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  Ranked & rankings

  Ranked games count. Climb the monthly high scores, the best combos and the all-time ratings board.

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  Cross-platform

  Windows, macOS and Linux share the same lobbies. The bowl doesn't care what OS you run.

Same game, same physics, same 2003 soul. This port fixes what time broke and adds the settings it always should have had. Every bit of it switches off if you want it stock.

Stock 2003 Remaster

drag the line

Remaster, optional

A graphics layer on top of the original renderer. Turn on the parts you like, keep the rest vintage.

• Skater shadow
• Lighting
• Bloom
• Tone mapping
• Anti-aliasing
• Sharper textures
• Field of view
• Motion blur

Options › Graphics

Live button hints

Every hint shows what to press on whatever you touched last. Grab a pad and the keys turn into buttons, mid-menu.

Keyboard Xbox PlayStation

Language

English, or Ukrainian with Cyrillic letters drawn in the game's own fonts. Menus, hints, goals and the story, switched on the fly.

English Українська

Keyboard

The retail PC layout out of the box. Rebind anything, two keys per action. Steal a key and it asks first.

Gamepad

Xbox and PlayStation pads with the THUG Xbox layout and rumble. Rebind the buttons; play with pad and keyboard at once.

Screen

Window or fullscreen, any resolution, 60 or 120 fps. Saved to config.ini, so it sticks.

Your keys in Edit Tricks

Trick lists and specials show the keys you actually bound, not PS2 triangles from 2003.

Saves that save

Story, skaters, parks and tricks save and load again, in a folder next to the game.

Online & LAN

THUG Online with lobbies, homies and ranked games, and LAN play that finds games again.

Sound & music

The whole soundtrack, streamed voices and sounds. Volumes remembered.

Movies

Intros, pro videos, secret tapes and the story's movies play again, with sound.

Native everywhere

Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon too) and Linux. No emulator, no Wine.