Toys for Bob, the studio behind video games like <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/video games/crash_bandicoot_n_sane_trilogy/b/playstation4/archive/2017/06/29/aged-like-a-fine-orange-wine.aspx">Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy</a>, <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/assessment/spyro-reignited-trilogy/purple-reign">Spyro Reignited Trilogy</a>, and <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/assessment/crash-bandicoot-4-its-about-time/crash-bandicoot-4-its-about-time-review-precision">Crash Bandicoot 4: It is About Time</a>, has introduced it's splitting from its proprietor Activision Blizzard to go impartial. It is usually exploring a partnership with Microsoft.
Toys for Bob introduced this in a press release launched right now, which explains why now could be “the time to take the studio and our future video games to the subsequent degree.”
Right here’s Toys for Bob’s assertion, in full:
“We’re thrilled to announce that Toys for Bob is spinning off as an impartial recreation growth studio.
Over time, we’ve impressed love, pleasure, and laughter for the inside little one in all players. We pioneered new IP and {hardware} applied sciences in Skylanders. We raised the bar for best-in-class remasters in Spyro Reignited Trilogy. We’ve taken Crash Bandicoot to revolutionary, critically acclaimed new heights.
With the identical enthusiasm and fervour, we imagine that now could be the time to take the studio and our future video games to the subsequent degree. This chance permits us to return to our roots of being a small and nimble studio.
To make this information much more thrilling, we’re exploring a doable partnership between our new studio and Microsoft. And whereas we’re within the early days of creating our subsequent new recreation and a methods away from making any bulletins, our staff is happy to develop new tales, new characters, and new gameplay experiences.
Our pals at Activision and Microsoft have been extraordinarily supportive of our new path and we’re assured that we’ll proceed to work carefully collectively as a part of our future.
So, preserve your horns and your eyes out for extra information. Thanks to our neighborhood of gamers for all the time supporting us by means of our journey. We are able to’t wait to share updates on our new journey as an indie studio. Discuss to you quickly.”
Toys for Bob didn’t disclose a value (if there’s one) related to its cut up from Activision Blizzard, which arrives only a few months after Microsoft bought the corporate for a colossal $69 billion.
Toys for Bob joins one other studio leaving the fingers of its proprietor right now: With a $500 million deal, Embracer Group has bought Saber Interactive to a gaggle of personal buyers, as reported by Bloomberg. Kotaku can also be reporting right now that Gearbox, the makers of the Borderlands collection, is seeking to break free from Embracer Group as properly.
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