Activision to Release More Remasters in 2021 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2021 / 2,611 Views
Activision in recent years has found success with remasters and remakes of classic titles. This includes Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.
Activision Blizzard CFO Dennis Durkin in a recent call with investors revealed they are working on more remasters that will be announced soon and possibly release later this year.
"We have a few other things up our sleeve in terms of remastered content that will unveil in due course, which should provide further opportunity for us this year," Durkin said.
Vicarious Visions, the team behind Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, has been moved from Activision to Blizzard, which has led to speculation they are working on a remake of Diablo 2.
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How about NEW games with REAL SEQUELS?
Those games listed are basically the old games completely rebuilt and updated, remade not really remastered. I'd welcome them looking into their back catelogue and remaking an assortment of their games. Vigilante 8, Tenchu, Hexen etc, but feel maybe I'd prefer just new version of those games BUT are they popular enough?
I think they could sell remasters of every COD game that came out prior to the 8th gen.
I'm not gonna buy them. But, other people will probably buy enough to make them worthwhile.
THPS 3+4 please. Maybe CoD MW3.
Other than that I doubt there's a lot of noteworthy stuff left.
If they could stop calling their remakes "remaster" that would be nice
I think the terms are synonymous to the average customer. So companies aren't careful about discriminating. Whatever sounds the best for the marketing team is what they go with.
It’s less egregious to call a remake a remaster than it is to call a port a remaster, which some companies have a habit of doing (AC Ezio Collection, Return to Arkham, Kingdoms of Amalur).
What other remasters can they be working on? I hope it's not the additional Crash and Spyro games that came out after the original trilogies as those were mediocre at best. At least to me.
They are doing a hellamazin job so keep at it!
Battlezone 2, Blur, Prototype, Vigilante 8, Dark Reign, Call to Power, Commander Keen would be all awesome to see remastered/remade.
Dark Reign, that's a name i havnt heard of in... (Walks off in Darth Vader style)
Blur seems unlikely as that didn’t fare too well with its initial release - I don’t think there would be an audience for a remaster. Prototype seems more of a possibility.
Do Activision even own Commander Keen? From what I can see, they only released a GBC game. I think ZeniMax retain the overall IP rights.
You are probably right that they don't own Commander Keen, I just mentioned it because I vaguely remember them having publisher rights at one point.
Blur actually has an active community that is still supporting the game funnily enough, it did garner a cult following.
I'm not to fussed about sales, that sounds like a publisher problem, still would like a remaster as I thought it was a solid racer with a good twist.
Don't talk PC gaming, apparently it's a taboo :D
but seriously I'm still waiting for Crash Team Racing Remake for PC .
Essay Pro