Is This Popular Video Game Character Getting A Netflix Series?

Published: October 30, 2025

By India McCarty

It looks like another beloved video game is getting a TV adaptation — rumor has it Netflix is considering a CRASH BANDICOOT series.

“Netflix isn’t done with bringing some of the most prolific video game adaptations to your screens,” What’s On Netflix reported. “We’ve learned that Netflix has been quietly developing a CRASH BANDICOOT animated series.”

Animation Magazine also reported on the rumors, adding that animation studio WildBrain is developing the series alongside Netflix. However, a spokesperson for WildBrain has since denied that they are involved.

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CRASH BANDICOOT was first launched in 1996 as a PlayStation game, and has remained popular ever since.

Jason Rubin, co-founder of Naughty Dog, the game’s original studio, told Polygon, “CRASH BANDICOOT ended up not being story driven [as previously planned], and that was mainly [because] the technology wasn’t there yet on PlayStation. Our budget wasn’t there yet. Nothing was there yet.”

“But we wrote the entire story for CRASH and were going to cut back and forth between the game and [cutscenes],” he continued. “That was the quest Naughty Dog set out on…‘How do we create a game in which the story is that interwoven in with the game, and how do you this in 3D?’”

Andy Gavin, Naughty Dog co-founder, added, “We drew from this big sort of pop culture pool, which included, like, every major video game made, ’80s movies…and classic cartoons. That’s what CRASH is: It’s a melange of a bunch of guys who grew up in the ’80s [drawing from their] pop culture, video game/TV/movie/comic/cartoon influences.”

CRASH BANDICOOT has remained popular, and even made an appearance in the Netflix animated series SKYLANDERS ACADEMY.

There hasn’t been a new CRASH BANDICOOT game released in some time, but some fans are holding out hope following the 2024 sale of the video game’s owner, Activision Blizzard, to Microsoft. It was also reported that Microsoft had reached an agreement with CRASH BANDICOOT’s former developer Toys for Bob for the studio’s next game.

At the time, Toys for Bob teased “a possible partnership between our new studio and Microsoft,” saying both Microsoft and Activision were “extremely supportive” of the project they were developing. However, nothing has been confirmed, and it’s still unknown whether another CRASH BANDICOOT is returning to video gaming.

New CRASH BANDICOOT games or TV episodes are still unconfirmed, but fans of the video game character are still holding out hope!

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