At E3 2016 during Sony 's press conference , after years of rumors , speculation and outcry , Crash Bandicoot finally made his official return when it was announced , in a timed partnership with Activision , that the first three games from the original PlayStation would be remade from the ground up . Crash would also be a playable character in Activision 's then-upcoming toys-to-life game '' Skylanders : Imaginators '' , released on October 16 , 2016 . It was announced at Gamescom 2016 that Dr. Neo Cortex would also be playable in '' Imaginators '' , and that a '' Crash '' - themed level was created for the game , " Thumpin ' Wumpa Islands " . The remakes of the original trilogy were developed by Vicarious Visions under the title '' Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy '' and were released for PlayStation 4 on June 30 , 2017 . Vicarious Visions has also expressed interest in making a new '' Crash Bandicoot '' game following the '' N. Sane Trilogy '' 's release . Vicarious Visions coined the term " Remaster Plus " to describe the collection , as they did not fully remake the original games , but rather used Naughty Dog 's original level geometry to rebuild the gameplay from scratch . As the levels were coming together , they also added their own art , animation , and audio . Almost none of the source codes for the original games were available to the developers , as the game engines were specially written for the original PlayStation and Vicarious Visions could not find a way to use it on more powerful systems . Sony and Naughty Dog were able to provide various polygon meshes from the original , although many important elements from these were missing and the team found that " they were compressed in some wacky format that we had to decode " . Vicarious Visions looked at various internet communities to make sure they had essences of the games captured . The team also had some fans test the game and give notes about it compared to the originals . In April 2017 , there was a contest for fans to submit ideas for idle animations for the character , with the winners announced the following month
E3 2016
E3 2016
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy