Activision studio Toys for Bob has introduced that it is leaving the company rat race and is spinning off as an impartial developer. This comes simply weeks after Activision Blizzard’s father or mother firm Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs at Toys for Bob that impacted 86 staff. That’s greater than half of your entire employees.
The developer mentioned 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 Nineties when it made hit titles like Star Management. To that finish, the corporate says it is already growing a brand new sport, although there received’t be any official bulletins for some time.
Moreover, there appears to be no arduous emotions for former father or mother firm Activision and, uh, grandparent firm Microsoft. Toys for Bob mentioned that each entities have “been extraordinarily supportive of our new course and we’re assured that we’ll proceed to work carefully 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 is About Time and the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. It’s additionally been concerned with creating content material for Name of Obligation: Warzone.
