It feels like it was just yesterday when a tiny purple dragon flew into our CRT TV screens, brought peace into Avalar's realm, and dove straight into our hearts with the release of Spyro the Dragon for the original PlayStation. Fast forward to today and several new installments, as well as a reboot trilogy, later, and Spyro is nowhere to be found.
The last we heard about Spyro was in 2018 when the Spyro Reignited Trilogy launched hot on the heels of the success of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy just a year earlier.
Unfortunately, while Crash and the rest of the gang has one more remaster (Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled) and two more new entries (Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Crash Team Rumble), Spyro's been turned into a crystal - until now.
According to an interesting post on Reddit, a new entry, Spyro 4: Mystery of the Dragon, will be announced on October 5 ahead of its release in Q4 2024 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, and PC.
Naturally, fans picked up on this, and, why wouldn't they? Although PlayStation gave up Spyro and Crash in the deal to secure Call of Duty for the PlayStation platform, the new management, Microsoft, isn't as averse to platformer games as Activision Blizzard. So, there was some sound logic behind the believe that a new Spyro game is indeed in development. Except, the rumor has since been debunked.