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Streaming giant Netflix seems to currently be on a hot streak when it comes to adapting popular video game franchise to TV or movie form; as just in the last couple of weeks, we already got to tell you about upcoming projects regarding the likes of BioShock and Splinter Cell.
And on October 27, 2025, reports emerged claiming that the company had recently struck its next coup: An animated TV series based on Crash Bandicoot, the same platforming video game franchise that was once the face of the PlayStation brand.
Crashing Into Markets
The first game in the series, simply titled Crash Bandicoot (1996), was created by Naughty Dog in collaboration with Universal Interactive Studios for the original PlayStation, with publishing by Sony Computer Entertainment. The games star the titular off-the-rails, genetically-modified bandicoot Crash, going against evil scientist Dr. Neo Cortex on the Wumpa Islands.
Gameplay is rooted in fast-paced, challenging 3D platforming with usually little narrative, featuring Crash navigating linear levels, breaking boxes, collecting Wumpa fruit and spinning away enemies. The series, especially the original trilogy, became a million-selling success story and established Crash as a key mascot for the original PlayStation.
After the exclusivity contract with Sony ended, Universal would try to take the series into new directions and contract different development studios, but was faced with diminishing returns. Eventually, the rights to the series were sold to Activision, who'd leave the series dormant after 2010. It took until the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (2017) and Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (2020) for the characters and world to be re-introduced to modern audiences.
Breaking Box (Office)
However, a direct sequel to It's About Time was reportedly cancelled in favor of the much smaller-scale live-service spin-off Crash Team Rumble in 2022. The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Gaming in 2023 added even further to fans' pessimism, with the likelihood of any major franchise projects in the foreseeable future seemingly deminishing – until now.
On October 27, 2025, industry news outlet "New on Netflix" first claimed to have received intel "that Netflix has been quietly developing a Crash Bandicoot animated series". Based on Netlix' current pace of pushing for new nostalgia-driven projects, this would seem credible, though initial reports of the series being worked on by animation studio WildBrain were later refuted.
But even if a Crash Bandicoot show were to be in development, we couldn't be certain that it would actually be realized (given that we know of an Activision-Amazon co-production that was reportedly cancelled shortly before 2021) or indeed... well, good, considering the bandicoot's last animated appearance as a guest in Skylanders Academy raised a lot of eyebrows in the fanbase.
But what do you think? Could a joint Microsoft-Netflix Crash Bandicoot project be sucessfully and – perhaps more importantly – faithfully realized? Or are we getting excited over a quick cash-grab? Let us know in the comments!