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February 29, 2024

Toys For Bob Leaves Activision

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Toys For Bob, the video game development studio praised for their work on Crash Bandicoot 4 and the remastered Spyro trilogy, announced today they’re departing the company that owns those characters and becoming independent. “We believe that now is the time to take the studio and our future games to the next level,” say studio heads Paul Yan and Avery Lodato. “This opportunity allows us to return to our roots of being a small and nimble studio.” It’s the first smart decision we’ve heard from a game studio in a while. The previous year was filled with news of acquisitions, consolidations and big Quadruple A game companies getting bigger. This year, so far, the news has been about these companies laying off hundreds of people every other day. Turns out shacking up with Mr. Big wasn’t the savvy idea they thought it was. Some studios have even vanished entirely in recent weeks, struck down by suits seeking to save a buck after the burst of the tech bubble. If Toys

June 13, 2019

E3 2019: Spyro Reignited Trilogy Comes To Switch September 3

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Earlier this year, Activision and Toys For Bob fire-breathed new life into an old mascot with the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. The compilation was released for Playstation 4 and XBox One, but Switch owners have been waiting (im)patiently for their own turn with the dragon. Given that the Crash N-Sane Trilogy made it to Switch, I don’t think there was ever any real doubt that Spyro would turn up. Nevertheless, advance confirmation is nice. Spyro lands on Switch September 3, bringing his greatest adventures with him: the original Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Immaculately remade from the ground up, Spyro Reignited Trilogy features the exciting and nostalgic gameplay that fans enjoyed years ago with over 100 levels, enhanced reward sequences, as well as the beautiful redesigns of Spyro’s hoard of zany dragons and other goofballs (including Sparx the Dragonfly, Hunter, Sheila, Agent 9 and Sgt. Byrd) and many more. The trilogy also includes enhanced environments, a remastered soundtrack, updated controls, brand-new lighting and

April 5, 2018

Spyro Reignited Trilogy Coming September 21

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Last year the original Crash Bandicoot games were successfully revived in the form of the N-Sane Trilogy on PS4 (and, soon, the Nintendo Switch). So folks who were PS1 children started asking, “if we get Crash, then where’s Spyro?” Right here…it didn’t take long for the current rights holders of Spyro to respond to the crazy sales of Crash’s comeback, and we’re getting a modern HD remake of Spyro’s three Playstation games in one package. Spyro Reignited Trilogy is its name, and it’ll contain all the levels from Spyro, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon, with “improved environments, updated controls, brand-new lighting and recreated cinematics.” The only thing missing will be Insomniac Games, who created those titles back in the day but is now feverishly busy on Spider-Man for PS4. Instead, Toys For Bob, who made all those Skylanders games not too long ago, will recreate Spyro’s world. Why them? Because Skylanders was originally conceived as a Spyro spinoff. It’s hard to remember now, but the