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It's actually on September 9, not August 31.
Launch poster for the original Crash Bandicoot game from 1996 on PS1, showcases Crash being launched into space by a rocket from earth with the Naughty Dog logo (also vertically rendered on the left), wavy text says "Launch September 9, 1996", with a cast render of all the characters you see in the game, Aku Aku, Koala Kong, Papu Papu, Pinstripe, Tawna, Ripper Roo, Neo Cortex, Crash and N. Brio.
August 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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We're not sure why this is not posted on this site but, @xbox.com had this image shared on other social media platforms with the caption "Core memory unlocked".

Some eagle-eyed folks discovered a funny error is that this is the GameCube version of "Wrath of Cortex" featured ("Play Crash Blast")
Social media post on Facebook by Xbox, posted 10 hours ago as of this writing, captioned "Core memory unlocked" The image in question displays 4 games on demo Xbox kiosk cabinets, the games featured are: "Halo: Combat Evolved", "Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex", "Forza Motorsport", and "Fuzion Frenzy"
July 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Here's an important and relevant part of the interview regarding Hollywood and the refusal of bringing Crash Bandicoot to the big screen. There's also a video for the whole interview for anyone interested in the quoted article below 👇
Title 5 reads: "Hollywood wasn't interested in a Crash Bandicoot movie" Banner for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is displayed with Sonic running and Eggman shooting missiles and smirking, logo is displayed surrounded by a ring. Captioned image reads: "The Sonic movie franchise has now generated over $1bn worldwide" The relevant article reads: "Alongside games-as-a-service, the other key area for Sega involves developing its properties beyond video games. Sega boss Shuji Utsumi says that the success of the Sonic movies has had a major impact on that franchise, with a significant boost to Sonic game sales. And now the company is looking to expand its other IPs in a similar way. It’s a marked change from when Utsumi-san first approached Hollywood to work on video games IP, he recalled." Continued article reads: "“When I started to get involved in the video game business, I picked up Crash Bandicoot and started asking some of the movie studios if they were interested in turning that property into a movie,” he revealed on The Game Business Show. “But I was treated like… ‘hey, video games is like a toy business’. They didn’t really take it seriously. “Video games are finally getting to be the culture, and that’s moving into the movie business. That’s a big shift for the industry that I am really happy about.”"
July 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Updated version of our current banner style to fit most social media cover art ratio of 3:1, have a look!
Crashy News banner consisting of most Crash Bandicoot designs (Cortex included from Twinsanity), from Crash 1, Wrath of Cortex, the GBA games, CNK, Twinsanity, On the Run, Crash of the Titans, Skylanders Imaginators, N. Sane Trilogy, and Crash 4 It's About Time in a sleek diamond border style with a Thumpin Wumpa Islands backdrop.
May 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Full postcard in a widescreen format
Wavy text showing the Crashy News head logo with "2025" and "Happy new year!" written
January 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Post from Crash Bandicoot on social media:

All I want this season is a Wumpa under the tree 🎄 Happy Holidays!
Postcard illustration showing Crash putting an ornament decoration (Wumpa Fruit) onto the Christmas tree, alongside others such as Oxide, TNT Crate, a Shoe, Aku Aku, the purple Crystal, the Naughty Dog logo, a CNK kart, N. Brio's lab glass, Fake Crash and a broken Neo Cortex one on the floor. Gift boxes can be seen in the background.
December 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Crash Bandicoot and Donkey Kong can be so alike, despite DK coming in earlier, they both have their similarities and differences.

What do you like and dislike about their iconic trilogies?
(Crash Bandicoot 1-3 vs Donkey Kong Country 1-3)
Skylanders Imaginators screenshot of Thumpin' Wumpa Islands featuring Crash Bandicoot and "Turbo Charge" Donkey Kong, standing next to each other on the beaches of Wumpa Islands
December 19, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Here's that exchange
Picture showing an Xbox tweet of a Christmas party with several IPs, including Halo, Diablo and Crash Bandicoot's "Woah" meme picture frame. A person asks that they see that picture and the Xbox account replies with "And he sees... Something 👀".
December 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Highlights from the article regarding Crash Bandicoot in the UK
Pink raunchy advertisement for Crash in his underwear with text reads "New in Town! Young Randy Bandicoot, 0990 664 400" Article segment explains: "The Crash Bandicoot marketing campaign saw a man attacked by pimps" "PlayStation's slightly unorthodox approach to marketing extended to the launch campaign of Crash Bandicoot saw them create fake Bandicoot road signs and lost pet posters. But one slightly edgier idea may have resulted in a real life assault. "We had slightly controversial postcards that went into phone boxes in Soho," Glendenning remembered. "It's where you'd get a lot of postcards featuring... well, ladies who wanted to date people. The guy who was putting these [Bandicoot postcards] up in the phone boxes... well, we found out that all the pimps owned these phone boxes. It was their phone box. We only found out when the guy who was putting those postcards out got beaten up. Which was a shame. Lesson learned." Recollections over whether the assault actually took place, or whether it merely nearly took place, differed amongst the panellists. Either way, they didn't repeat the idea again." The article segment showcases the top 10 best-selling PS1 games in the UK, proclaiming that Rayman was the #1 bestseller, with Crash Bandicoot showing up at #8. It says: "What was the best-selling game on PS1 in the UK? Tomb Raider perhaps? Gran Turismo? Nope. It was the original Rayman. The game found its way to the summit due to various bundles and pricing activity. Here's the full Top Ten courtesy of Nielsen."
December 6, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Does anyone who owns CTR Nitro-Fueled on Xbox able to confirm if this works for Xbox Cloud Streaming? (PC, Mobile, TV)
Google search result for "Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta)" says the following: "You can stream select cloud playable games you own that are not included with Game Pass Ultimate directly on some devices including Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV devices, and supported VR headsets with the Xbox app, or on supported smart phones, tablets, and supported browsers at xbox.com/play."
December 4, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Let's test this: GIF upload support (not the GIF search picker)
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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Here's the official illustration for this Thanksgiving on the Crash Bandicoot social media accounts this year!
Crash Bandicoot is enjoying the crazy ride on King Chicken, with Coco doing the same on a turkey, confusing both Pura and Polar Bear. The artist is unknown and has not been credited...
November 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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YouTube Thumbnail featuring... A whole bunch of Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation handheld consoles (mainly being PSPs) by Mrwhosetheboss, from 11 months ago and has 6.4 million views as of this writing. This video is also about 26 minutes long.
November 26, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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The Nintendo DS is now 20 years old! 🎂🥳

What were the Crash Bandicoot games that you've played back then, and which ones you've enjoyed the most, and also the least?
Cover art of Crash Boom Bang on the Nintendo DS Cover art of Crash of the Titans on the Nintendo DS Cover art of Crash Mind Over Mutant on the Nintendo DS
November 22, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Over at the bird site (and other socials), the official Crash Bandicoot account posted this picture for the announcement of Spyro Reignited Trilogy coming to Xbox Game Pass
A screenshot of a post by the official Crash Bandicoot social profile on the bird site, saying "All my homies coming to Xbox Game Pass", with a suit Crash person holding a cardboard sign with a picture of Spyro Render and the Xbox Game Pass logo (both accounts are also tagged as well), sitting on a metal bench outdoors, near what seems to be a construction site (?)
November 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Here's their response to someone asking about it
User "Scott Fisher" asking the Totaku folks over the bird site, saying "Any chance of that CTR one being finished? I need that!" with regard to the figure. In which the social media account of Totaku responded with "Doubtful, at the time we were trying to get it done for game launch but sadly it fell through once we missed the deadlines needed for it to come together.
October 29, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Over at the bird site, Totaku shared images of mockup figures that never got produced, including a CTR Crash figure.
Computer monitor displaying a mock-up image of a Crash Team Racing figure featuring Crash Bandicoot sitting in a kart on a Plus symbol podium standard affair of Totaku.
October 28, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Can you think of any vista or views that really took your breath or enchanted you in the series?

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October 14, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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We are proud to announce that we will redesign our logo too!!!!!!!!!
September 20, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and we are #569,200!
September 17, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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It seems like we can upload videos now!

Here's a test video from one instance when the official Crash Bandicoot website featured a video of a loading screen for pages...
September 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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The official Crash Bandicoot website and social media profiles got a branding update showcasing the series, using the old NST logo.
Curiously, the age rating for the ESRB does not get changed for the relevant age ratings in the localized versions of the website.
August 8, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Official screenshots from Crash Nitro Kart in the best quality possible

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July 10, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Official screenshots from Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex in the best quality possible

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July 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Official screenshots from Crash Twinsanity in the best quality possible

#CrashBandicoot #20thAnniversary
July 8, 2024 at 4:59 PM