"We"re reinventing Tony Hawk from the ground up," Activision Publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith said during an earnings call on Thursday.

He said that there are two separate Tony Hawk developments underway. The first, slated to release this year, will be a Nintendo DS exclusive "that utilizes new technology not yet seen on the DS."

The second release will launch in fiscal 2010 (beginning in April 2009), and will presumably be across multiple consoles. "This title will have two years in development to deliver the kind of breakthrough that the franchise needs," Griffith said.

"For competitive reasons, we"re not going to talk about it today, but we"re very bullish on the kind of innovation this will bring. This won"t be your father"s Tony Hawk."