New Spyro game seemingly confirmed by developer portfolio

There have been rumors for some time about something that Crash Bandicoot and Spyro developer Toys For Bob is currently working on independently. We know that both Xbox and Activision are heavily involved, as studio head Paul Yan acknowledged, and there have been whispers among insiders about a potential resurrection of Spyro the Dragon.

Toys for Bob itself has even teased what feels like an imminent Spyro the Dragon announcement, responding to YouTuber Canadian Guy Eh's email in purple and adding a purple box with a question mark to its website. It's been teased terribly for a while now, but we finally got some gentle confirmation that something Spyro-related is in the works at the studio now.

New Spyro game seemingly confirmed by developer portfolio

In Canadian Guy Eh's new video, he shares the LinkedIn profile of a former senior concept artist at Toys for Bob named Donald Yatomi, who worked at the studio from August 2022 to March 2024. If you look at the titles that Yatomi claims to have worked on during that period, it lists Call of Duty (which isn't surprising considering that Toys for Bob once appeared as a supporting studio), but it also lists “Spyro.”

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Now, as Canadian Guy Eh points out, it's very hard to imagine this referring to anything other than a new Spyro game. Spyro: Reignited Trilogy was released in November 2018, almost four years before Yatomi began working at Toys For Bob. While it's unlikely that it's mentioning Spyro content from Crash Team Rumble, it's much more likely that it'll list a game rather than a character that Yatomi worked on.

It's not hard evidence that Spyro 4 is in the works at Toys for Bob, but we think it's as close to confirmation as it is outside of an official reveal from the studio itself. Add to this all the teasing that Toys For Bob itself has put out to the world and the claims made by insiders over the period, and it feels like it's only a matter of time before Spyro joins the same team as Mega Man and retires.