A new leak suggests that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will be coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service in August later this year.
The claim comes from reliable leaker eXtas1s who wrote on eXputer and said that he had a talk with several sources and has seen "certain graphic evidence." He said that all of these point to Game Pass releases for a number of Activision titles in the not-too-distant future.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on Game Pass
(Photo : Vicarious Visions / Screenshot taken from Steam)
The leaker's most specific claim is that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is among these titles and is set for an August release. This claim has since been corroborated by Windows Central but reports suggest that there are more games coming to the subscription service.
It was also said that Activision's Tony Hawk 1 + 2 remake and Spyro Reignited Trilogy will also be coming to Xbox Game Pass. While these titles are not guaranteed to come with Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, they are both reportedly going to join the subscription service "very soon," according to Eurogamer.
So far, Microsoft has only confirmed one Activision Blizzard title that will be joining Xbox Game Pass other than Diablo 4. That particular game is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which is supposed to be a Day One addition to the catalog on Oct. 25, 2024.
This is a bit more than a year after Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision was made official. Xbox boss Phil Spencer also warned fans last year that the publisher's titles would not start showing up on Game Pass until 2024. He blamed the holdup on "a lot of uncertainty" around the buyout process.
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But now that everything is in order, fans are hoping that it won't be too long before Microsoft and Activision finally give players what they have been asking for. This is for every Zork title on Game Pass for PC.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was developed by Vicarious Visions, which is now known as Blizzard Albany, and is a remaster of the original three Crash Bandicoot games and launched in 2017, said WindowsCentral.
A Potential Addition
The remastered collection includes modernized versions of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. On top of featuring remastered graphics and audio, the developer is also creating entirely new content based on cut content from the original trilogy.
For fans of the Crash Bandicoot franchise who are eager to play the upcoming remaster and are comfortable betting on the leak being accurate, they should get an Xbox Game Pass. The subscription service has a relatively affordable price tag.
Users on PC and console can expect to pay $9.99 per month for the core version and $16.99 per month for the Ultimate version, according to Insider Gaming.
The Crash Bandicoot franchise was one of the main mascots of PlayStation alongside Spyro at its peak. However, the series' PlayStation exclusivity ended decades ago and they went multiplatform in the early 2000s.
The characters in the franchises are now owned by Xbox and the company's plans for them are currently still unknown.
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