Former Activision studio Toys for Bob companions with Xbox to publish its first recreation as an indie

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob to launch its first recreation after spinning off as an impartial entity. The corporate, which developed latest entries within the Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot franchises, hasn’t launched any concrete particulars about its upcoming launch, besides to say that it’s early in improvement and that the group has been working arduous.

That is, in fact, one thing of a homecoming for the developer. Activision is owned by Microsoft, making Toys for Bob its… former grandchild? In any occasion, it’s doubtless simple to get pitch conferences and the like with an organization you’ve labored with prior to now. Additionally, the developer has a reasonably stellar pedigree, having created the Skylanders franchise and the , amongst others.

Toys for Bob after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 staff, which was greater than half of the workers. On the time, the corporate stated the transition to an indie would permit it to return to “being a small and nimble studio.” This sentiment harkens again to its early days of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, again when Toys for Bob was cranking out video games like Star Management.

The developer additionally stated again in February that Microsoft has “been extraordinarily supportive of our new path and we’re assured that we are going to proceed to work intently collectively as a part of our future.” It seems prefer it wasn’t mendacity about that final half.