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. Additionally it is exploring a partnership with Microsoft.
Toys for Bob introduced this in a press release launched at present, which explains why now’s “the time to take the studio and our future video games to the subsequent stage.”
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 improvement studio.
Over time, we’ve impressed love, pleasure, and laughter for the internal youngster 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 keenness, we consider that now’s the time to take the studio and our future video games to the subsequent stage. 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 crew is happy to develop new tales, new characters, and new gameplay experiences.
Our buddies at Activision and Microsoft have 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.
So, preserve your horns and your eyes out for extra information. Thanks to our group of gamers for all the time supporting us by means of our journey. We will’t wait to share updates on our new journey as an indie studio. Speak 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 just some months after Microsoft bought the corporate for a colossal $69 billion.
Toys for Bob joins one other studio leaving the fingers of its proprietor at present: With a $500 million deal, Embracer Group has offered Saber Interactive to a gaggle of personal buyers, as reported by Bloomberg. Kotaku can also be reporting at present that Gearbox, the makers of the Borderlands collection, is trying to break free from Embracer Group as effectively.
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