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Crash Bandicoot 5 Has Been Quietly Cancelled – Rumor

Crash Bandicoot 5 Has Been Quietly Cancelled – Rumor

Crash Bandicoot 4 it's about time

It’s been four years since the launch of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Timeleading many fans of the series to wonder how much longer the wait for the next installment will last. However, it turns out that the next Accident The game may have been quietly cancelled behind the scenes, according to someone who may have worked on it in some form.

Nicholas Kole – an illustrator and character designer who worked with Toys for Bob on both Spyro Reignited Trilogy And Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time – recently took to Twitter to talk about Dragon Projectan unannounced title that was in development at an unknown studio that Kole had been working on for three years, until its recent cancellation.

Discussing the same topic, in response to a fan wondering if Dragon Project was a new one Spyro title, Kole assured that this was not the case, but continued to mention “the Crash 5 “It never happened,” adding that it would “break hearts” if and when people found out.

Probably, Crash Bandicoot 5 was in development at Toys for Bob, before being quietly canceled. Kole clarified in subsequent tweets that Crash 5 and the Dragon Project he mentioned earlier that these were two different projects in different studios.

2024 has been an eventful year for Toys for Bob. Under its new parent company Microsoft, the studio was hit with massive layoffs in February, but shortly after, it was announced that Toys for Bob had acquired itself from Activision and Microsoft and was set to become independent.

Despite its independence, Toys for Bob’s next game will still be published by Microsoft, as officially announced in May. Reports have claimed that the title in question is Spyro 4which has been in preparation since January of this year.