Crash Developer Toys for Bob is Now Supporting Call of Duty: Warzone Development - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2021 / 1,817 Views
The Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time developer Toys for Bob via Twitter announced it is supporting development for Season 3 of the battle royale game, Call of Duty: Warzone.
"Toys for Bob is proud to support development for Season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone, and look forward to more to come," reads the tweet from the developer.
"Glad to have you on the project with us!" responded Raven Software, who worked on Call of Duty: Warzone with Infinity Ward.
There have been recent reports that Toys for Bob was hit with layoffs from former character designer and illustrator at Toys for Bob Nicholas Kole. He worked at the developer for a little over three years before leaving in January 2021.
"It’s the end of an era, but I wish my former coworkers still with TFB all the best with what’s ahead!" said Kole. He added that "everyone I interfaced with and worked along was let go, I’m very glad it’s not a totally shuttering."
Glad to have you on the project with us! ??
— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) April 29, 2021
Same! Altho everyone I interfaced with and worked along was let go, I’m very glad it’s not a totally shuttering
— Nicholas Kole (@FromHappyRock) April 30, 2021
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Disgusting... Got so much hate for Activision.
How much support does CoD need that it keeps absorbing Activision's studios? Weird move, especially after TfB succesfully revived Crash into relevance not so long ago.
It seems like they're only supporting Warzone along with Raven Software. I know Raven has REALLY been struggling with cheating and other exploits, and they probably have grand ambitions in terms of live content like the nuclear event that just happened along with developing just new content, and whatever next years map will be. Which is strange because Raven is on a hiring spree last I read
What a fucking shame.
Activision, 1st of April was last month
all the idiots that keep buying microtransactions are to blame for moves like this
Erm, can someone buy them from activision pls?
Edit: If there were lay offs, I hope Sony or MS picks up those who departed. I can see the core talent from the team rebooting Banjo or Jak
Soooooo Vicarious Visions got absorbed into Blizzard, and now Toys for Bob gets absorbed into CoD? I was hoping they were working on a new Spyro game like Crash 4 or even a THPS 3&4 Remaster or a new THPS........oh well
unless crash 4 didnt sell well looks like toyz for bobz are heading to the back shelf like what EA did to ghost games r.i.p last nfs haha back to criterion
sheesh toyz for bobz should be working on a new project like new spyro not fcken cod jayzus they already got all hands on deck what a waste of talent
Pretty short-sighted of Activision. I mean if the Call of Duty bubble finally does burst one day, they won't likely have any games in the pipeline to take its place.
You do not want to support them buying brand new meaty crash, you will support them playing warzone and buying microtransactions.
Sony needs to give Activision a call. Crash belongs back in pure hands ... Shame on you Activision :(
the trouble is it was never in Sony's hands in the first place Universal's funding deal meant they owned any IP Naughty dog created from that financing the deal Mark Cerny made when he headed Universal Interactive was we will fund your game in return for the IP rights since Universal Interactive was just starting up and needed Ip's and both ND and insomniac had there studios on the Universal lot but had no new games under development he took the unusual risk of funding games before they even had a prototype to look at simply because they needed games and lucked out with both Crash and Spyro .
Then Sony saw what became Crash a lot later at a trade show pitching games in development and did a 3 game publishing deal and the rest as they say is history.
The legal licensing of Crash has always been convoluted I agree. But Crash is synonymous with PlayStation history. Activision and Sony have a close partnership, they could work an exclusive deal besides Call Of Duty content. But I appreciate your info on this thought. Mark Cerny went from Universal's executive, to Sony's architect for Vita, PS4, and PS5. True "kando" reached.
You are right about Crash being synonymous with PS history but with a major emphasis on history, Today's sales numbers just don't add up for Sony to make an exclusive deal ,and even less when you factor in the premium they would have to pay to offset Activision's loss of multiplat sales, and then you have the conundrum of are you doing this off the back of Activision development or trying to drive extra sales by playing on the bringing it home angle.
If it's the later you run into the main problem that is ND today isn't the ND of Crash and there would pushback across the board not just from ND who would be in a no win situation of either going fullbore and putting everything on hold something that hurts them and Sony both financially and undermines their standing, or they have a secondary ND team make it that apart from having ND on the cover defeats the purpose, all this without any clear development path being pushed by an enthusiastic developer.
This can be linked into the same reason we now have Uncharted and TLoUS and no Jak and Daxter they tried but it wasn't working they had run that race, and no matter how much we want it even Sony doesn't know where the keys to the Delorean are.
