Activision studio Toys for Bob has introduced that it is leaving the company rat race and is spinning off as an independent developer. This comes simply weeks after Activision Blizzard’s mother or father firm Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs at Toys for Bob that impacted 86 workers. That’s greater than half of your entire workers.
The developer stated the selection to go indie will enable it to return to “being a small and nimble studio”, harkening again to its early days of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties when it made hit titles like Star Management. To that finish, the corporate says it is already creating a brand new sport, although there received’t be any official bulletins for some time.
Moreover, there seems to be no exhausting emotions for former mother or father firm Activision and, uh, grandparent firm Microsoft. Toys for Bob stated that each entities have “been extraordinarily supportive of our new route and we’re assured that we’ll proceed to work intently collectively as a part of our future.”
Toys for Bob is primarily recognized for the Skylanders franchise, however was additionally behind the well-reviewed Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time and the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. It’s additionally been concerned with creating content material for Name of Responsibility: Warzone.
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