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Friday22nd Jan 2021
News Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk Remake Developer Merged into Blizzard, No Longer a Lead Studio
"Fully dedicated to existing games"
Vicarious Visions, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawks' Pro Skater 1 + 2 — both excellent remakes — has today been merged into the Blizzard side of Activision Blizzard. From this point forward, the developer will be "fully dedicated to existing Blizzard games and initiatives". This...
Wednesday29th Jan 2020
Rumour PS Plus February 2020 PS4 Game Outed By PlayStation Spain
Woah!
February 2020's PlayStation Plus games are set to be announced later today -- that's the 29th January for those of you reading this in the future -- but it's looking like one PS4 title has already been outed. Over on the official PlayStation Spain YouTube channel, a community post reads (translated from Spanish): "Tomorrow at 17:30 we'll...
Thursday21st Nov 2019
News Sony Is Allegedly Making a Crash Bandicoot Movie
But could be bogus
As the ill-fated Uncharted movie and recently established PlayStation Productions can attest, Sony’s a fan of video game adaptations. The problem it has is getting its ideas off the whiteboard and into actual cinemas. The two (!) Angry Birds films prove that it’s capable, though, and there are all sorts of rumours swirling...
Wednesday13th Feb 2019
News Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Spins Past 10 Million Units Sold
Woah!
If you were wondering why Activision is continuing to remake some classic titles, look no further than the success of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Initially launching with a bang on PS4 in July 2017, the game eventually made its way to other platforms, boosting its already healthy numbers significantly. The publisher confirmed during its...
Monday29th Oct 2018
News Spyro and Crash Bandicoot Trilogy Bundle Spotted on Retailer Websites
Together at last
Now that we think of it, a Crash and Spyro game bundle makes so much sense. As Activision is responsible for the two beloved platformer characters, and seeing as they both have had their original trilogy of adventures remade for PS4, why not put them together? While nothing official has yet been said about such a product, multiple...
Friday29th Jun 2018
News Crash Bandicoot Update Adds New Level and HDR Support on PS4
Play Future Tense now
An update for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is now available on PS4, bringing a couple of interesting additions to the nostalgic package. First and foremost is a new level named Future Tense, an entirely original creation from Vicarious Visions. As for where it's located, it's been added to Crash Bandicoot Warped's hub...
Monday11th Jun 2018
E3 2018 Crash Bandicoot's Getting a Brand New Level, Free to Download
Future Tense drops this year
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is getting brand new content, meaning you’ll have a reason to return to Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped later this summer. Set inside the threequel’s future world, the level’s been created from scratch by Vicarious Visions. It joins Stormy Ascent, which launched on the PlayStation 4 last...
Saturday9th Jun 2018
E3 2018 New Crash Bandicoot Reveal Coming Very Soon
DLC, or something more?
An interesting detail that pops up on Geoff Keighley's E3 2018 livestream schedule, the team behind Crash Banidcoot N. Sane Trilogy will be joining Geoff in order to reveal a "first look at something new". It's happening on Monday at 17:30 Eastern time. Naturally, people are already losing their minds over the...
Thursday21st Dec 2017
News Crash Bandicoot Is PS4's Best Selling Remaster Collection to Date
Cool as a 'coot
“Who cares about Crash Bandicoot?” the sceptics said. “He’s just a product of 90s nostalgia!” But we told you that the N. Sane Trilogy was going to do big business for Activision, owing to the fact that you lot clicked on any articles we wrote about the character in droves. And we were right: Vicarious Visions’ brilliant...
Thursday30th Nov 2017
News Unwrap the First of EU PS Store's 12 Deals of Christmas Today
Bah humbug
How is it Christmas already? It only feels like yesterday yours truly was attempting to play The Last Guardian through severely hampered vision – it’s a long story. Anyway, the 12 Deals of Christmas are back on the European PlayStation Store – an annual rollercoaster where fans wait in hope of great deals that never really tend...
Friday4th Aug 2017
"We had no idea it'd be this popular"
We’re going trumpet our own horn a little bit here: we told you time and time again that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was going to be huge. But it seems even Activision didn’t predict the PlayStation 4 remake’s, ahem, N. Sane success – with CEO Eric Hirshberg admitting during an earnings call that the...
Thursday20th Jul 2017
News Crash Bandicoot's Hardest Ever Level Released As DLC
Free through 19th August
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy not hard enough for you? Fancy a free level? Activision’s launched the unreleased Stormy Ascent stage on the PlayStation Store today – and it’s free through 19th August, which is nice. Of course, we already more or less knew this was coming due to the original title’s Trophy list. If...
Tuesday18th Jul 2017
News Crash Bandicoot PS4 Is Indeed Harder than the Original, Says Dev
Not so N. Sane
"Yowza, Crash Bandicoot is harder than I remember" is something that many PlayStation 4 users have been saying over the last few weeks. Since the launch of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, people have been investigating the claim that the remade version of the first Crash Bandicoot title is actually more difficult than the...
Tuesday4th Jul 2017
News Crash Bandicoot PS4's Success 'Could Lead to Other Things', Says Activision CEO
Spin it to win it
It seems as though remaking the first three Crash Bandicoot games has been well worth the effort for Activision. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy launched just a few days ago, claiming the second biggest software launch of 2017 here in the UK. What's more, our friends list is currently packed with people playing the...
Saturday1st Jul 2017
News Sony Awarded PlayStation Employees the Coolest Crash Bandicoot Gift
Any jobs going?
Employees at PlayStation in the United States got a cool gift on company dime today: a copy of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy presented in a retro jewel case. The artwork has been altered to make it look like an original PSone release, while there’s a mock CD-ROM inside boasting a PlayStation Network code for the full game. While...
Friday23rd Jun 2017
News N. Sane Trilogy Plots the Return of Japanese Crash Bandicoot
Face lift
Veteran fans of Crash will know that the bandicoot has a slightly different face in Japan. As part of Sony’s localisation efforts for the original trilogy of games, it gave the titular character a bit of a facelift, attempting to make him more palatable to local audiences. It worked, too – Naughty Dog’s titles were a surprise hit in...
Tuesday20th Jun 2017
News Crash Bandicoot Is Back with 90s Style N. Sane Trilogy Ads
Someone get this guy a drink
Remember those old 90s Crash Bandicoot ads featuring some poor guy in a big mascot suit? Well, Activision's brought the suit back in order to advertise Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. A fitting campaign for a collection of remade PSone titles. The first video has our furry friend sweat it out in the gym, while...
Thursday15th Jun 2017
E3 2017 Want Crash Team Racing? Buy N. Sane Trilogy
Va va voom
This is our favourite sales pitch: if you want Game X then you must buy Game Y. It’s a teensy bit shady, but the fact is that it holds water: publishers are much more likely to fund games if there’s tangible proof that a market exists, so when Vicarious Visions suggests that Crash Team Racing could come to the PlayStation 4 if the
Tuesday13th Jun 2017
E3 2017 New Crash Bandicoot PS4 Trailer Confirms Fully Playable Coco
In all levels, it seems
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has a brand new E3 2017 trailer, spotlighting a few more remade levels and some fresh gameplay. Oh, and it confirms what the rumours have been saying: Coco Bandicoot - Crash's more responsible sibling - will be playable throughout the collection. The Trilogy comes to PlayStation 4 at the...
Saturday10th Jun 2017
News Crash Bandicoot PS4's Trophies Reveal Major Secrets
Far out
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy’s trio of Trophy lists are live ahead of the game’s launch later this month, and they’re harbouring some interesting secrets. First and foremost, the trinkets look reasonably achievable, though you will have to earn a lot of secret gems, which will surely challenge your platforming prowess...
Sunday4th Jun 2017
News Sony Readying Ratchet and Crash Bandicoot PS4 Slim Bundle
Platforming bliss
This bundle makes way too much sense, and you’re probably going to see a lot more of it around the world this Christmas: a Reddit post has revealed that Sony is readying a Ratchet & Clank and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy bundle. The package includes the two aforementioned titles, alongside a 1TB PlayStation 4 Slim...
Friday2nd Jun 2017
News Naughty Dog 'Very Impressed' and 'Quite Touched' By Crash Bandicoot PS4
Top dog
We reckon Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy looks the biz, but what does Naughty Dog think of the upcoming collection? For those who perhaps don't know, the studio behind the Uncharted games started on its path to greatness by creating the original Crash Bandicoot titles on PSone. Naturally, we're all interested in hearing what the team...
Saturday27th May 2017
News All of Crash Bandicoot's Incredible Death Animations Remain Intact on PS4
Woah!
In a slightly twisted way, we've always loved Crash's death animations. In the original PSone Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Naughty Dog put real effort into crafting specific animations for each and every way that you could die - and many of them were hilarious. Fortunately, it seems as though all of these animations have been...
News Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Will Have Three Platinum Trophies
Bling
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is going the extra mile in almost every area, recreating Naughty Dog’s classic levels for a new generation, while adding in all-new art assets and quality of life improvements. But you didn’t think it was going to skimp on the Trophies, did you? Activision has confirmed that the release will include not one,...
Friday26th May 2017
News Crash Bandicoot 3 Looks N. Sanely Good in Huge New PS4 Gameplay Video
Crash is back, baby
Who's up for some remade Crash Bandicoot 3 gameplay, then? The only game in the trilogy that we haven't see in action up until now, PlayStation Underground has pushed out 20 minutes of lovely looking footage. Seriously, how spot-on does this look? The video takes us through three levels that veteran fans of the 'coot may...
Thursday25th May 2017
News Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Will Get Warped on Friday
N. Ot long N. Ow
Many of you have been asking why Activision hasn’t released any footage of Crash Bandicoot: Warped’s remake for the PlayStation 4 yet. We’ve always suspected that the publisher may be saving the best until last, and that certainly seems to be the case. Worry not, though, you impatient ‘coots – you’ll be getting your...
Saturday20th May 2017
News Remember the Fantastic Baddies of Crash Bandicoot with This PS4 Boss Trailer
Nostalgia overload
The original three Crash Bandicoot games defined PlayStation back in the day, but we daresay that they wouldn't have been quite so memorable without the brilliant boss fights that Naughty Dog crafted. We remember some of them being devilishly tricky, but that made victory all the more rewarding. With that in mind we hope...
Thursday18th May 2017
News This Is What Crash Bandicoot PS4's Case Should Look Like
Phwoar
Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy is all about N. Ostalgia. Meh, that gag didn’t really work, did it? Anyway, the point is that Naughty Dog’s iconic ‘coot is coming to the PlayStation 4 because so many fans – now with crow’s feet and greying hair – grew up with the character in the 90s. But while we like the title’s boxart,...
Monday15th May 2017
News Colourful Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Key Art Spins Into View
Three's a magic number
Before you say it, yes, it's a slow news day. We wouldn't usually write a whole story based on the release of a single promotional image, but hey, it's Crash Bandicoot. With the release date for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy creeping ever closer, Activison and developer Vicarious Visions seem to have settled on...
Thursday11th May 2017
News Look, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Probably Isn't a PS4 Exclusive
Here we go again
Is Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy a PlayStation 4 exclusive? We've said it a million times already but we'll go ahead and say it again: probably not. Sony has never explicitly said that the remade collection is exclusive to its home console - and that's the biggest warning sign you could ask for. If the trilogy was a full...
