A former Toys for Bob idea artist says that Crash Bandicoot 5 was at one level in improvement on the studio, however has since been canceled together with one other sport referred to as Challenge Dragon.
Former senior idea artist Nicholas Kole shared on Twitter that he was engaged on Challenge Dragon, a survival and crafting multiplayer RPG. A Twitter user requested if it was associated to Spyro. Kole answered, “It isn’t Spyro, however some day people will hear in regards to the Crash 5 that by no means was and it’s gonna break hearts.” He additionally clarified that each video games have been fully unrelated and have been canceled by two separate studios.
Whereas it is unknown which studio was working Crash Bandicoot 5, a number of Phoenix Labs developers got here out to say that Challenge Dragon was theirs. Phoenix Labs laid off 9% of its workforce again in Could.
Toys for Bob was the developer behind Crash Bandicoot 4: It is About Time and it sold over 5 million copies, according to a studio designer. The studio grew to become unbiased and cut up from Microsoft again in February, and it subsequently introduced that its subsequent challenge is in collaboration with Microsoft.
Crash Bandicoot began out as a PlayStation unique collection however was later owned by Activision. With Microsoft’s merger with Activision Blizzard, Crash Bandicoot is now a Microsoft IP. Nonetheless, given Xbox’s initiative into placing extra of its first-party video games on different platforms, any future Crash Bandicoot video games might nonetheless be launched on PlayStation.