Skip to main content

Crash Bandicoot goes mobile in leaked endless runner by Candy Crush developer

Crash Bandicoot, a series from the original PlayStation that was recently revived for the current generation, is reportedly making its way to mobile.

The new Crash Bandicoot game is an endless runner similar to the infamous Temple Run, with players navigating Crash as he keeps running forward until the end of the level or until an obstacle stops everyone’s favorite marsupial.

The game was first leaked by Twitter user JumpButton, who uploaded images that were claimed to be pulled from Facebook ads.

CRASH BANDICOOT MOBILE GAME REVEALED
investigation by myself and @Motwera

This game can be signed up for NOW it seems.

The way the link was found was by searching the name on FB after previously being a fan of the FB page tied to the Brazilian ads.https://t.co/98Qq3jkJCZ pic.twitter.com/AE6bPek4rq

— JumpButton (@jumpbuttoncb) February 7, 2020

The four images include what looks like the game’s icon, confirmation that the images are from a mobile game, a screenshot of the gameplay, and a mode that tasks players with building a base.

The game’s icon also shows that King is the studio behind the project. Activision Blizzard, which owns the Crash Bandicoot franchise, is the parent company of King, the developer of the massively popular Candy Crush series on mobile.

In addition to the leaked images, Kotaku discovered a full description of the Crash Bandicoot mobile game. The gameplay, like most titles in the endless runner genre, allows players to do various actions as they go through the levels to collect stuff. The game also offers secret passages, new tracks that may be acquired from smashing certain crates, and the aforementioned base-building mode where players can create weapons and grow crops, among other things.

Crash Bandicoot fans were hoping for a new game in the series to follow the success of Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, which brought the first three games of the franchise from the original PlayStation into current-generation consoles. A mobile game was unexpected, but it does not mean that a new installment in the main series is not on its way. In fact, it will fit nicely into a strategy of building up hype for Crash Bandicoot through a mobile game, in advance of an announcement of a new game in the near future, according to Kotaku.

Activision Blizzard recently said that it will launch more “remastered and reimagined” games this year, but the leaked mobile game hints that the studio will not abandon making new titles, at least for Crash Bandicoot.

Editors' Recommendations

Aaron Mamiit
Aaron received a NES and a copy of Super Mario Bros. for Christmas when he was 4 years old, and he has been fascinated with…
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy: Our first take
The ‘Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy’ is a playable Warner Brothers cartoon
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Remakes, remasters, reboots, and spiritual successors comprise an inordinately large amount of the new releases these days. As gaming as grown explosively over the last several decades the snake has looped around to eat its own tail, mining for those sweet nostalgia nuggets, worth their weight in gold as the average gamer grows into more disposable income.

Crash Bandicoot, PlayStation’s original wacky marsupial mascot, is back to reclaim his throne with the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, which remasters all three of the original games for the PlayStation 4. Sony and Activision have teased a return for years: Every reference to the franchise, such as when SIEA President Shawn Layden prominently wore a Crash t-shirt at PSX 2015, sends old veteran PlayStation fans into a frenzy.

Read more
Remastered 'Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy' launches June 30 for PS4, PS4 Pro
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Activision will release its upcoming Crash Bandicoot remastered collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, for PlayStation 4 on June 30. The collection will cost $40 and includes updated editions of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

Crash fans pining for a revival of the classic platformer got their wish when the trilogy was revealed at E3 2016. There's been speculation about how effective the remaster treatment would be for a trio of games that, frankly, haven't aged incredibly well. After all, the original Crash Bandicoot turned 20 last year, and the most modern game in this collection, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, was released in 1998. Vicarious Visions, the studio tasked to bring Naughty Dog's iconic hero back to life, seems to have given these concerns their due diligence.

Read more
Crash Bandicoot scrapped cutscenes hint at never-aired cartoon series
crash bandicoot animated cutscenes unearthed thumb

Gaming industry veteran David Siller has unearthed an animated intro planned for inclusion in Naughty Dog's 1996 PlayStation platformer Crash Bandicoot, hinting at a cartoon series and other franchise expansions that never materialized.

The scrapped introductory sequence, seen above, relates Crash Bandicoot's storyline in a minute-long video that could easily double as a title sequence for a cartoon series.

Read more