The Hub 

• What’s in Season 4

• Welcome to The Stadium and San Van Open

• New Features and Improvements

• skate.Pass for Season 4

• Updated Events

Welcome to the San Van Open, skate.’s Season 4, starting June 2, 2026 until August 25, 2026! During the San Van Open, the SVCC is transforming the city into one giant skate festival. New sponsors are flooding in with gear while skaters from every corner of San Van storm the streets and battle for glory.

First up, check out an overview of what you can expect in Season 4 and beyond in our updated roadmap.

Since our last roadmap, we’ve made some big moves. Finger flips are officially coming to San Van in Season 4, landing right off the bat on June 2. Limited-time X Games Spot Battles will follow as part of our mid-season update. Proximity chat, underflips, and improved footplants are now in development, meaning we’re actively working on them but don’t have an ETA on when they’ll land. Our matchmaking system hit a bump in the road, so we’ve moved it back into the “On the Radar” section while we work out the kinks. We’ve also started jamming on ideas for Character Improvements and Improved No Complies. 

We'll share more details later in the season as we continue working - let’s focus on what’s coming to San Van throughout Season 4. 

Coming in Season 4

Before we break it all down, here’s a quick list of what’s coming to San Van throughout Season 4:

• New area: The inside of The Stadium is now open

• Improved Community Parks, and an update to Hedgemont Park

• New and updated tricks and Skatepedia updates: Fingerflips

• New brand partners: Spitfire Wheels, Real Skateboards, Thunder Trucks, Quasi Skateboards, Carpet Company, Vinyl Skateboards

• New game mode: X Games Spot Battles (coming mid-season)

• New feature: Skater Codes (coming mid-season)

• New tracks to the soundtrack: 21 new tracks

• A new skate.Pass (with improvements and tuning), as well as more brands in the skate.Pass, tattoos, the ability to earn up to 1,500 SVB through the skate.Premium Pass, and more

• Quality of life improvements: Updated lighting on Isle of Grom and San Van, Pinning Tasks, Gameplay Density settings, restructured graphical settings, and more

• Seasonal events: Go Skate Weekend and X Games

• Bug fixes (details coming on June 1, 2026  via the 0.31.0 patch notes)

Season 4 Deep Dive

Check out below for a deep dive into what’s ready to rock on Day 1 - and what will be dropping later in the season. 

Lighting Update

First up, summer has officially kicked off in San Van, and the world team has reworked the lighting to match. Here’s what our Sr. Lighting Director had to say about the changes:

Since we launched skate. Early Access, we’ve kept San Van at a steady time of day throughout Seasons 1-3: partly for consistent look and feel, partly for technical reasons behind the scenes. For Season 4, we wanted to shake that up a bit and lean into the summer vibe, so we’ve shifted to an early afternoon, high-sun feel. That “perfect California summer” atmosphere. No better time to skate!

How would you describe the Season 3 lighting?
We wanted to find a more ownable look for Seasons 2 and 3, so we moved toward later-afternoon lighting, leaning a bit more toward the golden hour. You know, the sun isn't quite that low in the sky, but we wanted it to feel kind of warm and inviting, like that nice, warm, sunny, hazy afternoon.

How would you describe the shift from Season 2/3 to Season 4, and the intention behind it?
From Season 2 and 3 to 4, this was a good time to introduce a time-of-day change to San Van, because we had already done a significant time-of-day change in Grom before that, from sunset to nighttime. So, we're like, okay, we need to bring in a bit more variation and move it slightly more toward high noon, maybe pre-noon. So the sun moved across the sky, shifting the angle of all the downtown shadows, kind of freshening the city's vibe and giving old spots a new perspective. Some areas that used to be in direct sun are now in shadow, and vice versa.

What visual signatures define the Season 4 lighting update?
For this change, we wanted more vibrant, clearer skies, a noon-time with a different sun angle, and a heavier vignette as the other main component. So if you look at a side-by-side of Season 2 and 3 compared to Season  4, the vignette is much stronger.

Why bring in a stronger vignette?
A strong vignette really centers your attention on the center of the screen, where your skater is. It gives a nice fall-off to the periphery of the frame.

Anything you can tease about Season 5 and beyond?
There are exciting things on the horizon, and we're constantly expanding our lighting repertoire.

Visual Refresh

As always, the city’s getting a visual refresh for the new season. You’ll notice updated paint, art, and environmental touches around Rolling Waves, the Block Party, the Amphitheater, and other skateable spots across San Van. Plus, we’re adding to the city’s lived-in feel with another grime-and-surfacing pass.

Updated Rolling Waves

Updated Block Party

Updated Stage

And, to give you even more ways to get creative and show your style in San Van, we’re adding 95 clothing, footwear and accessory options (shirts, shoes, headwear, eyewear, and more), 108 skateboard options (including decks, wheels, trucks, stickers), 3 new gestures, 39 tattoos, 58 Player Card options (backgrounds, avatars, and titles), and 22 Quick Drop items to get creative with in San Van.

The Stadium

Lucre Financial Stadium, aka “The Chum Bucket” is the epicenter of Season 4. From the kickoff of the San Van Open to the X Games San Van event, closing out the summer, this place is built to shred. Expect endless opportunities to blast huge airs, stomp insane tricks, and crush the contest layouts that await inside.

As an added benefit to their pass, Season 4 skate.Premium Pass holders can access The Stadium early, from June 2 until July 7, 2026. From July 7 to July 21, those without skate.Premium can grab a 24-hour day pass to the Stadium for 250 Rip Chips (earnable through completing Challenges and Tasks). To cap things off, there will be open access to the Stadium from July 21 to Aug 25 for a very special X Games San Van event, requiring no skate.Premium Pass or Rip Chips. Unlimited access to Isle of Grom for Season 4 is also a benefit of the skate.Premium Pass, or you can get a 24-hour San Van Water Taxi Day Pass for 500 Rip Chips.

New Community Park

The Stadium isn’t the only new zone dropping in Season 4. The locals decided to sunset Hedgemont Park and build something new nearby. Hedgemont’s new Community Park is floating in with a completely fresh design built to keep sessions flowing.

The original Hedgemont Community Park is goneski! We’ll see what the city plans for the space in a later season, so stay tuned. 

The original Hedgemont Community Park is goneski! We’ll see what the city plans for the space in a later season, so stay tuned. 

Welcome to Hedgemont’s new Community Park!

The Community parks are getting an overhaul, as shared by our World Design Director:

Since Season 1, we’ve heard the community feedback, so the community lots are more focused on the skatepark experience first. Some are designed around bowls and vert, and others are built more like real-life plazas, whether fictional or inspired by actual spots. We are listening to the feedback, so we are interested in hearing what other types of parks the players want to see moving forward.

New Features and Improvements

Coming Mid-Season - Friend Code System aka. Skater Codes

Skating with friends is always more fun (especially if you turn on party collision), but getting together can be easier. So that’s what we’ve done. Coming mid-season, we’re introducing Skater Codes. 

These are six-digit unique identifiers that you can give to someone to find you without having to search your Steam, EA, Xbox, or PS username. We’ll have details on how it works, how to find yours, how to share, and more as we get closer to mid-season. 

New Mode

Coming Mid-Season - Limited time event: X Games Spot Battles 

We know you’ve been itching for more competition in skate., so we’re bringing back a popular mode to scratch that itch: X Games Spot Battles. 

Spot Battle is an updated legacy mode: a turn-based Throwdown experience where every trick matters and the pressure is sky-high. Launching mid-season with update 0.31.5 on July 21, the first version arrives with X Games Spot Battles: a form of persistent Throwdown that lasts for the duration of the event.

Spot Battles go down over 3 intense rounds. You throw your run, then spectate the competition while plotting your next move. But don’t zone out - every skater’s line could change your strategy. You’ll need to stack the highest-scoring sequence possible in a limited area and within the clock. And there are zero rebates. If you bail, your run is DONE for that round.

After all 3 rounds wrap, players are ranked based on their best overall trick sequence, while daily top scores blast near each throwdown location. There are 6 total, so if you want your name on each, you need to top each throwdown around town. These are leaderboards for your specific server, NOT across the global population. 

We’ll drop the full details on X Games Spot Battles closer to mid-season. Until then, start visualizing your runs!

New & Improved Tricks

Fingerflips

Things are about to get hectic: Season 4 is bringing proper finger flips to the streets of San Van. We’ve expanded the list of variations far beyond what we had in previous games, packing this update with stylish, technical chaos.

And of course, Skatepedia is getting updated too, so you’ll have every trick breakdown right at your fingertips when it’s time to get extra steezy.

New Settings and Improvements

Session Markers

• Skaters will be able to set session markers on lip mounts, making drop-ins much more satisfying.

Gameplay Improvements

• Improved air coffin animations and ground-to-air coffin transitions.

• Improvements to onboard steering, increasing player control.

  • New setting for improved camera follow behavior. 

  • Improved spring dampening for steering input.

  • Improved leaning due to changes in direction.

• New Gameplay Density Setting: Gives players the ability to control how many other skaters, pedestrians and vehicles can be rendered. 

Task and Challenge Improvements

• Task panel in the main menu displays daily tasks and progress.

• Challenge completion values shown on the neighborhood progress panel.

• Icons of Challenges on the map become small unless hovered over when all non-co-op criteria has been completed.

• You can now PIN TASKS! In the Tasks menu, select Tasks you want to track in the HUD.

Visual Settings

• We’ve restructured the graphical settings to make it easier to understand how settings connect with each other.

Audio Improvements

• In Season 4, we are adding more life to San Van. We worked with 12 voice actors to record 5,000 lines of pedestrian dialogue. They will now:

  • Greet you when you are near

  • Talk on their phones

  • Comment on your slams and landed tricks 

  • Become annoyed when pestered or when their vehicles are blocked

Challenges and Tasks

Monthly seasonal events aren’t the only thing to do during Season 4. We’ll have 31+ new Seasonal and Event Challenges and over 273 Tasks – spread out through Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Event tasks. 

Seasonal Challenges Tuning Details

skate.Pass for Season 4

Quick reminder: the skate.Pass has two tracks: the Standard (free) and Premium track - where you earn currency called “Tix” each season to exchange for items from the skate.Pass, which you can get via: 

• Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tasks, and Special Event Tasks (including completion bonuses)

• Seasonal Challenges

• Own The Lot Tasks and Challenges

• Daily grants (Premium skate.Pass only)

• Exchange for San Van Bucks

This season, we’ve added two bonus pages to the skate.Pass, enabling skate.Premium Pass members to earn up to 1500 SVB (total) through completing the skate.Premium Pass. And, as an added benefit of the skate.Premium Pass for Season 4, you get unlimited access to Isle of Grom and The Stadium for the entire season. 

skate.Premium Pass can only be obtained from the in-game store during the season in which it’s released. You can complete the Standard (free) track, upgrade to the Premium track for 1000 SVB to get access to the Premium items, or get a bigger boost with skate.Premium Pass+ for 2000 SVB, which will give you skate.Premium, plus 4000 Tix to begin unlocking skate.Pass items. 

You can continue progressing and unlock rewards for up to one additional season. Once the following season ends, you can’t complete progression against the legacy skate.Pass. Skate.Pass content requires gameplay and all game updates to unlock. Premium and Premium+ content also requires skate.Pass Premium or Premium+ (sold separately).

So what are the rewards in Season 4?

Alright, let’s blow the lid off the Season 4 skate.Pass. You’ve got 110 tiers to absolutely tear through (12 main pages + 2 bonus pages packed with extra heat) - 38 tiers on the Standard track and 72 tiers waiting on the Premium side. Rack up 32 free cosmetic rewards and 6 SVB tiers on the Standard track, or go full send with Premium to unlock 62 more cosmetic rewards and 10 additional SVB tiers. That’s a wild stack of 94 cosmetic items and 16 full SVB tiers if you dive all the way into the skate.Premium Pass - earning up to 1,500 SVB by the time you cross the finish line. 

The Season 4 skate.Pass is loaded with fresh skate gear built to flex hard all summer long - decks, trucks, wheels, griptape, stickers - the whole setup. We’re also dropping brand new fits for your skater, including clothes, shoes, outrageous costumes, hats, tattoos, and fresh gestures so you can style on everyone at every session. Plus, you’ll unlock profile upgrades like banners and avatars to set the vibe every time you hit the streets.

What are some of the cosmetics?

Expect San Van to be dripping with style all season long. The Season 4 skate.Pass is stacked with brand new partners and gear drops from the likes of Spitfire Wheels, Real Skateboards, Thunder Trucks, Quasi Skateboards, Carpet Company, Vinyl Skateboards, and X Games. Plus, get ready for fresh cosmetic refreshes from Nike SB, huf, Girl, Chocolate, adidas, Vans, Dickies, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Thrasher, and Dime.

The skate.Premium Pass track also comes with an iconic Premium reward this season: the legendary Nike SB Air Force 1 Low shoes. Lace ‘em up and bring the heat to every line, gap, and rail in San Van.

New Dem Bones Pack and Thrasher Starter Pack

Dem Bones is BACK from the dead and ready to rage through Season 5. The Dem Bones Pack includes the full Dem Bones cosmetic setup - costume, deck, wheels, trucks, and 3 stickers - plus the Season 4 or Season 5 skate.Premium Pass* and 2,500 SVB.

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Want to crank the chaos even higher? The Dem Bones Deluxe Pack throws in everything above PLUS the Cowboy Cosmetics set (hat, boots, shirt, jeans, trucks, 3 stickers, and 12 tattoos) along with another 2,500 SVB - bringing the total to a massive 5,000 SVB.

*Receive one seasonal skate.Premium Pass determined by login date after purchase. Must login before season end to receive the season pass. See

go.ea.com/skatefaq

for details.

And yes, you absolutely can throw some shades and the cowboy hat (or any hat you choose) onto Dem Bones. And yes, the classic Dem Bones deck from Skate 3 is officially back.

Thrasher Starter Pack

And for skaters looking to hit the streets in style, the new Thrasher Season 4 Starter Pack hooks you up with 500 SVB and a full blast of Thrasher style: a Thrasher Black Longsleeve, Thrasher Blue Shorts, the Thrasher Pharaoh deck, 3 Thrasher stickers, and 500 San Van Bucks for just $5 USD.

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Music

Music has always been part of the heartbeat of skateboarding, and Season 4 is cranking the volume way up. We’re dropping 21 new tracks into the soundtrack to fuel those summer sessions.

1. Bad Brains - Banned in D.C.

2. De La Soul - Good Health

3. The Specials - Ghost Town

4. Jeezy - Get Ya Mind Right

5. Black Flag - Fix Me

The complete list of new music is dropping next week, so stay tuned.

Events

Go Skate Weekend Event

Go Skate Weekend is turning San Van into one giant four-day skate extravaganza. The entire city is gonna hit the streets  and throw down all weekend long. Expect exclusive in-game Challenges, fresh Go Skate Weekend gear, and a few surprises we’re saving for later. 

X Games San Van

The Stadium + X Games = mid-season mayhem! We’ll have full details on the X Games San Van later this season so get ready to chase greatness, and close out summer in style.

Welcome to the San Van Open. Welcome to Season 4.

Keep rollin’,

The skate. Team