Skylanders Imaginators

September 10, 2016

Skylanders Celebrates Crash Bandicoot’s Anniversary

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This week actually marked the 20th anniversary of the beloved Crash Bandicoot. The video game franchise superstar finally returns to consoles later this year as a playable character in Skylanders Imaginators. As such, Activision has released a new video celebrated the beloved Bandicoot. You can check out the new video, which also features new gameplay footage for Skylanders Imaginators, in the player below. The new video showcases the new level in the game, Thumpin’ Wumpa Islands. The video also features a counter in which the ways the level honors the classic Crash Bandicoot video game series. Another video was released featuring Aku Aku that celebrates the anniversary of the character, which you can also check out below. It’s great to finally see Crash Bandicoot back in a new video game. While this isn’t his own game, getting Crash as a playable character here is better than nothing. Plus, the remastered version of the classic games are in the works. Skylanders Imaginators finally hits the shelves next month. The game will

June 21, 2016

E3 2016: Skylanders Imaginators First Impressions

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During E3 2016, Activision offered PopGeeks an early, behind-closed-doors demo preview for the next installment of the hit toys-to-life video game franchise, Skylanders Imaginators. Activision definitely earned some brownie points with fans with the announcement of the return of the beloved classic Sony PlayStation star, Crash Bandicoot, will return in this game as one of the new Sensei class character. Plus, Imaginators has some other new features that will be of interest to longtime fans of the franchise. One of the most exciting aspects for Imaginators is that for the first time in the franchise’s history, Skylanders has a Create Your Own Skylander feature. The developers for the hands-off preview showcased this feature first hand. The Create a Skylander mechanic actually has quite a bit of depth. There’s quite a few combinations players will be able to play with in terms of Skylander power sets, abilities, catchphrases and even voice effects. So the players will be able to customize a catchphrase based on some stock terms. But in addition, the

June 14, 2016

E3 2016: Crash Bandicoot Is in Skylanders Imaginators!

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Activision Publishing officially confirmed some chatter and rumors that had started circulating online that will be music to the ears for a lot of fans. Crash Bandicoot is returning as a playable video game character, and he will be a guest star for the next Skylanders game in Skylanders Imaginatiors. Crash Bandicoot recently made a return with an amazing cameo and Easter egg moment in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Activision made the announcement during Monday’s Sony Interactive Entertainment Press Conference. Crash will appear in Skylanders Imaginators as a fully playable Skylander Sensei character, and he will get his own Skylanders Imaginators toy for the game as well. This glorious return for the longtime PlayStation mascot character celebrates his 20th anniversary. Jess Harnell will reprise his role as Crash for the game. However, that was only one of the big Crash Bandicoot pieces of news that got announced this week at E3. The other big news is that Activision is going to release fully remastered versions of the first three Crash