Crash Team Rumble Announced, Features Eight-Player Competitive Online Matches

Crash Bandicoot is coming back in 2023, but unlike his last time-traveling outing, he's taking things online. Crash Team Rumble was announced during The Game Awards and features four-on-four arena action for players of varying skill levels.

In development at Toys for Bob--which also created Crash Bandicoot 4--Crash Team Rumble features classic series characters like Crash and Dingodile as they try to move Wump fruit into a drop-off zone while also defending the enemy's zone. Characters will have their own special abilities, and there will be a strategic layer to the game to complement the zany action.

This is hardly the first spin-off for the Crash Bandicoot series, with the remastered Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled launching back in 2019. We've also seen other party games, like Crash Bash back in 2000, but the addition of online play should shake things up.

The Crash Bandicoot series had been dormant for nearly a decade before Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy released in 2017. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time followed a few years later and received great reviews.

Crash Team Rumble will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, and PS5 in 2023.