Toys for Bob, the studio behind video games like <a href=” Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy</a>, <a href=” Reignited Trilogy</a>, and <a href=” Bandicoot 4: It is About Time</a>, has introduced it’s splitting from its proprietor Activision Blizzard to go unbiased. It’s also exploring a partnership with Microsoft.
Toys for Bob introduced this in a press release launched immediately, which explains why now could be “the time to take the studio and our future video games to the following 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 unbiased sport improvement studio.
Through the years, we’ve impressed love, pleasure, and laughter for the interior baby 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 progressive, critically acclaimed new heights.
With the identical enthusiasm and keenness, we consider that now could be the time to take the studio and our future video games to the following 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 potential partnership between our new studio and Microsoft. And whereas we’re within the early days of growing our subsequent new sport and a methods away from making any bulletins, our staff is worked up to develop new tales, new characters, and new gameplay experiences.
Our pals at Activision and Microsoft have been extraordinarily supportive of our new route and we’re assured that we are going to proceed to work intently collectively as a part of our future.
So, hold your horns and your eyes out for extra information. Thanks to our neighborhood of gamers for all the time supporting us by way of our journey. We are able to’t wait to share updates on our new journey as an indie studio. Speak to you quickly.”
Toys for Bob didn’t disclose a worth (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 palms of its proprietor immediately: With a $500 million deal, Embracer Group has bought Saber Interactive to a gaggle of personal traders, as reported by Bloomberg. Kotaku can also be reporting immediately that Gearbox, the makers of the Borderlands sequence, is trying to break free from Embracer Group as effectively.
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