{"id":226707,"date":"2024-05-31T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/former-activision-studio-toys-for-bob-partners-with-xbox-to-publish-its-first-game-as-an-indie\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:16","slug":"former-activision-studio-toys-for-bob-partners-with-xbox-to-publish-its-first-game-as-an-indie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/former-activision-studio-toys-for-bob-partners-with-xbox-to-publish-its-first-game-as-an-indie\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Activision studio Toys for Bob <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ToysForBob\/status\/1796556809660207498\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:just announced a partnership with Xbox;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> to release its first game after spinning off as an independent entity. The company, which developed recent entries in the Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot franchises, hasn\u2019t released any concrete details about its upcoming release, except to say that it\u2019s early in development and that the team has been working hard.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, something of a homecoming for the developer. Activision is owned by Microsoft, making Toys for Bob its\u2026 former grandchild? In any event, it\u2019s likely easy to get pitch meetings and the like with a company you\u2019ve worked with in the past. Also, the developer has a fairly stellar pedigree, having created the Skylanders franchise and the <span><em><\/em><\/span>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Toys for Bob <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/activision-studio-toys-for-bob-is-going-independent-after-sweeping-xbox-layoffs-201548396.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:spun out as an indie back in February;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 employees, which was more than half of the staff. At the time, the company said the transition to an indie would allow it to return to \u201cbeing a small and nimble studio.\u201d This sentiment harkens back to its early days of the 1980s and 1990s, back when Toys for Bob was cranking out games like <em>Star Control<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The developer also said back in February that Microsoft has \u201cbeen extremely supportive of our new direction and we\u2019re confident that we will continue to work closely together as part of our future.\u201d It looks like it wasn\u2019t lying about that last part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/former-activision-studio-toys-for-bob-partners-with-xbox-to-publish-its-first-game-as-an-indie-170033303.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Former Activision studio Toys for Bob to release its first game after spinning off as an independent entity. The company, which developed recent entries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}