Former Activision studio Toys for Bob companions with Xbox to put up its first game as an indie
Former Activision studio Toys for Bob appropriate announced a partnership with Xbox to free up its first game after spinning off as an fair entity. The firm, which developed present entries in the Spyro the Dragon and Smash Bandicoot franchises, hasn’t released any concrete principal functions about its upcoming free up, with the exception of to impart that it’s early in pattern and that the crew has been working laborious.
Right here’s, of course, one thing of a homecoming for the developer. Activision is owned by Microsoft, making Toys for Bob its… feeble grandchild? In any tournament, it’s likely easy to catch pitch conferences and the partiality with a firm you’ve labored with in the previous. Also, the developer has a reasonably stellar pedigree, having created the Skylanders franchise and the neatly-reviewed Smash Bandicoot 4: Or now now not it’s About Time, among others.
Toys for Bob spun out as an indie back in February after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 staff, which used to be extra than half of the crew. At the time, the firm acknowledged the transition to an indie would allow it to reach to “being a diminutive and nimble studio.” This sentiment harkens back to its early days of the 1980s and 1990s, back when Toys for Bob used to be cranking out video games fancy Well-known particular person Management.
The developer furthermore acknowledged back in February that Microsoft has “been extraordinarily supportive of our unique direction and we’re assured that we are going to continue to work closely together as half of our future.” It appears fancy it wasn’t mendacity about that final half.
