pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"Peripherals/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/09/thpgdemo.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Though we'll leave the exact placement and nature of the controller for you to figure out, Activision is insistent that the item used to beat the emTony Hawk/em skateboarding franchise out of it stale stupor won't just be any ol' empaddle/em. "You're not going to be playing this game with a controller in your hands," a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"the company teased/a at a recent, in-game advertising summit. br /br /We've heard mumblings of a a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/02/rumor-next-tony-hawk-to-have-peripheral-not-developed-by-never/"new peripheral/a before (the new DS game already has a confirmed a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/29/tilt-controlled-tony-hawks-motion-revealed-for-ds/"tilt function/a), but are no closer to understanding just what the device is and how it works. Our highly educated guess? A giant plastic skateboard. For a skateboarding game. Is that pushing it?p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/"Next Tony Hawk won't be played 'with a controller in your hands'/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:55:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391127/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5YSU7O1j7XckVtetTFnZAFAM_Gw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5YSU7O1j7XckVtetTFnZAFAM_Gw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=nFgifihc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=nFgifihc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VgYdkgaP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VgYdkgaP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/338lQXqZf2E" height="1" width="1"/