[STEAM] Ex-Activision Dev Mentions ‘The Crash 5 That Never Was’ and Now Fans Are Heartbroken

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A former Activision developer has mentioned a ****** Bandicoot 5 that ******* to materialize.

Nicholas Kole, who worked at once Activision-owned studio Toys for Bob as a character designer and illustrator for over three years on the likes of

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, had tweeted about a separate project, codenamed Dragon, that was in the works at Dauntless and Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs and was just weeks away from an early access launch before it was canceled.

Amid confusion that Kole’s tweets on Project Dragon related to an unannounced Spyro the Dragon project, the former Toys for Bob developer revealed that a ****** 5 game was once in the works but fell by the wayside.

“It is not Spyro, but some day folks will hear about the ****** 5 that never was and it’s gonna break hearts,” Kole

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Project Dragon and ****** 5 were “two totally separate canceled projects at two different studios,”

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Kole has so far ******* to offer any detail about this canceled ****** 5 project, perhaps understandably given the secrecy that surrounds video game projects and the non-disclosure agreements designed to keep them under wraps. But as Kole predicted in his tweet, ****** fans are already expressing disappointment that this new ****** game never saw the light of day.

****** 5?!

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— Syp The Mighty (@sypsart)

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Hearing any sort of cancelled project news breaks my heart, but hearing about a cancelled ****** in particular stings ******* than anything..

— Matteomax (@Matteomax)

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There could have been a ****** 5? Noooooo

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— MrLautax (@MisterLautax)

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MY HEART
ITS BROKEN

— adamangus2005 (@Adamangus2006)

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Toys for Bob’s own ****** Bandicoot 4: It's About Time ******** the last mainline entry in the much-loved platformer series. It launched in October 2020 across PlayStation 4 and Xbox One before hitting other platforms in 2021. Toys for Bob’s online multiplayer spin-off,

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, came out in 2023 but ******* to find an audience, with a final content update released in March. It was Toys for Bob's final game produced as an Activision-owned studio before

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Despite this, the ****** franchise ******** hugely popular. Only last month, Activision announced 2017’s ****** Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy had sold an incredible 20 million units. You’d think, then, that ****** Bandicoot 5 would be something of a no-brainer, but so far, nothing.

What we do know is

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. This mysterious new game, which the company said will return it to its roots after a stint as a Call of Duty support studio, is still in "very early development." Could it be ****** 5? Only time will tell.

Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on

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at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld.

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