Some of the new characters in the cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 include various family members of series antagonist Neo Cortex.
There's reportedly always been "outside interest" in revisiting the Banjo-Kazooie franchise but Rare was more interested in new IPs.
Banjo-Kazooie has long been a dormant franchise that can only be played through classic game collections on the Switch and Xbox.
The platformer will also be joined by Madden NFL 25 and Blizzard Entertainment's Heroes of the Storm, it's claimed.
Toys for Bob's acclaimed remake compilation of the original trilogy will soon be available across all three Game Pass tiers.
It was recently reported that the platformer's total launch week sales in the UK were over 20 percent higher than Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart's.
Toys for Bob spent some months conceptualizing the next single-player Crash title, before Activision decided to shelve the project, it's claimed.
Character designer Nicholas Kole has claimed that a new mainline Crash Bandicoot game was quietly cancelled behind-the-scenes.
The Crash trilogy will allegedly join the service's catalog in August, though whether the other two will follow in the same month is currently unknown.
The game – a new Spyro the Dragon title as per reports earlier in the year – is still in very early development, the studio says.
That's as per the LinkedIn profile of Toby Schadt, who's design director at developer Toys for Bob.
YouTuber Canadian Guy Eh heard "whispers" of its development over the past few months, with some individuals at PAX East hearing the same.
The game will seemingly be "similar to games Toys for Bob has made in the past."
The final update adds a new 500-tier Battle Pass with 104 new items from previous seasons and events for players to earn.
The studio behind Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time! is going private and working on a new title.
Amidst mass layoffs across new parent company Microsoft, Toys for Bob has reportedly lost a significant chunk of its workforce, along with shutting down its office.
Details on the game's third season of post-launch content will be unveiled at The Game Awards.
Experience five new mini-games and two new maps, Waste Deep and Jazz Junction, with Season 2: Party Mode currently ongoing.
Five years on from its launch, the remake trilogy has hit another major sales milestone.
Campaign development is in partnership with Infinity Ward. Sledgehammer is also "working closely" with Treyarch on Zombies.
