Who owns the rights to Crash Bandicoot?

Now Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard, it owns all associated intellectual property, including Crash and Spyro.
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What game company owns Crash Bandicoot?

In 2007, Vivendi merged with Activision, which currently owns and publishes the franchise. The Crash Bandicoot series has been a major international success, selling over 160 million in dollars and is the 25th best-selling series as of March 31, 2011 with around 40 million copies sold since its debut in 1996.
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Who owns the rights to Crash and Spyro?

The Spyro and Crash Bandicoot franchises are now owned by Microsoft after the company acquired Activision Blizzard last year, so although fans may be disappointed to see Toys for Bob depart Activision, the news might not spell the end for the studio's work on the two classic series.
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Who bought Crash Bandicoot?

Last month, Microsoft and Toys for Bob agreed to part ways with the latter spinning out into an independent company. Microsoft retains ownership of Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and other properties associated with Activision.
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Does Sony still own Crash?

However, shortly after, the rumors and speculations were derailed when Sony VP of Publisher Relations Adam Boyes confirmed on Twitter that Activision still owns the rights to the franchise, and Lang clarified that he was not teasing a Crash Bandicoot revival, and that he had not been asked to return to the series, but ...
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Is Crash Bandicoot now owned by Microsoft?

Now Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard, it owns all associated intellectual property, including Crash and Spyro.
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Did PlayStation ever own Crash Bandicoot?

The first three Crash games were published by Sony but the rights to the bandicoot himself belonged to Universal Studios' video game publishing wing, Universal Interactive, which also happened to hold the leash of Sony's second-most popular platformer, Spryo the Dragon.
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Will Sony buy Crash Bandicoot?

The Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition's closure means that Xbox now owns Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon — both formerly Sony PlayStation mascots.
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Does Sega own Crash Bandicoot?

Crash Bandicoot is now owned by Activision since 2007 and Vicarious Visions currently makes the games.
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Does Sony own Spyro?

The series was originally produced by Universal Interactive, later became known as Vivendi Games; the rights to the intellectual property were acquired by Activision after its merge with Vivendi in 2008.
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How did Activision get the rights to Crash Bandicoot?

In 2006, the publishing rights for Crash transitioned to Sierra Entertainment, which was then owned by Vivendi, which in turn merged with Activision. While there were a few more installments between 2004 and 2008 (all of which abandoned chronological numbering), the release of the Crash Bandicoot N.
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Who is stronger Spyro or Crash?

Boomstick: With the strength to throw an eight-ton boulder, Crash was actually stronger than Spyro, and both of them had survived impacts worth around two millions tons of force.
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Does Xbox now own Spyro?

Besides Crash and Spyro, of course, Xbox also owns the Rare catalog, and Phil Spencer has been so bold as to invoke the name of Banjo-Kazooie in the past. If not Spyro, here's hoping that fans of at least one classic 3D platformer series can get something out of all this.
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Can you still buy Crash Bandicoot?

Your favorite marsupial, Crash Bandicoot, is back! He's enhanced, entranced & ready-to-dance with the N. Sane Trilogy game collection. Now you can experience Crash Bandicoot like never before in Fur-K.
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What happened with the Crash of Bandicoot?

On October 27, 2021, the game's development team announced a temporary hiatus from major updates in favor of building improvements and new features. On December 19, 2022, King announced that the game's servers would be deactivated on February 16, 2023, rendering the game unplayable.
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Why is it called Crash Bandicoot?

While preparing for the game's demonstration at E3 1996, the team decided to finally rename the title character "Crash Bandicoot", a name credited to Kurosaki and Dave Baggett. The character's name was based on his species and the visceral reaction to his destruction of boxes.
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What company made Crash Bandicoot 4?

It's a big stick in the sand for us, and it really crisped up when we started to call this project Crash 4. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time was developed by Toys for Bob, who had previously developed the Spyro Reignited Trilogy and ported the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to the Nintendo Switch.
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Is Sonic owned by Capcom?

Sonic the Hedgehog is a character created by the Japanese game developers Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima. He is the star of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Sega.
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When did Sony sell Crash?

The franchise was owned not by Sony, but by Universal, until it was sold off to Activision in the early 2000's. The last game in the series, Crash: Mind Over Mutant, was released on PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS in 2008.
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Is Crash Bandicoot Sony mascot?

The orange marsupial was everything the PlayStation was looking for in a mascot in the 90s. Crash Bandicoot was a colorful personality that showed off the 3D capability of the console with its platforming challenges.
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Why don't they make Spyro games anymore?

Insomniac stopped making Spyro because by their own admission they had run out of ideas on what to do with the character, which explains why in Spyro 3 they started dabbling in new player characters, and why they would later make Ratchet and Clank.
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Is Crash Bandicoot a Sony game?

Crash Bandicoot is a 1996 platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The player controls Crash, a genetically enhanced bandicoot created by the mad scientist Doctor Neo Cortex.
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How much did Crash Bandicoot 1 sell?

Crash Bandicoot - 6.82 million. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - 4.08 million+ Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped - 5.7 million+
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What is the Japanese name for Crash Bandicoot?

Crash Bandicoot (Japanese: クラッシュ・バンディクー Kurasshu Bandikuu) is a platform game made by Naughty Dog in 1996 for the PlayStation, featuring the character by the same name.
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