I've been bashing Sanzaru Games (makers of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time) quite a bit lately, perhaps undeservedly. It might really be Sony's fault that Sly 5 isn't in the works. Or it might be a profitability concern; Sanzaru is just a company trying to stay in business, after all. Unfortunately, I think that it is probably unlikely that they will make another Sly Cooper game. Sanzaru seems to have spread out from PlayStation to other platforms such as the Oculus Rift (Facebook's Virtual Reality solution), Nintendo 3DS, and the Xbox One. At first glance this appears to be disappointing.

It has recently come to our attention that on April 14th, Brian Flemming, co-founder and producer of Sucker Punch Productions (the studio behind the first three Sly Cooper games) Tweeted a picture of a man dressed up as Sly Cooper outside of Sakura-Con. For the uninitiated, Sakura-Con is an annual anime convention held in Seattle (Sucker Punch is located in Bellevue not far away). While Sly Cooper has seen releases in Japan, Sly is not, to my knowledge, an anime character. Of course people can cosplay as whatever they want at conventions, and this is in Sucker Punch's home town, but something seems suspicious. Could this be yet another hint that Sucker Punch is dropping suggesting that they may be working on a fifth Sly Cooper game? Or is this just a sentimental post by one of the key founders of our collective childhood?  Please let us know what you think in the comments! Also, be sure to like and Tweet this story as it really helps us out. And who knows - if this gets back to Flemming, maybe he'll end up dropping another hint! The excellent cosplayer in this photo is Mustang Revolver who can be found on FaceBook here. Check him out for other awesome projects!

VTNVIVI does it again, digging up some groundbreaking Sly Cooper news. As you can see for yourself in the attached video, it looks like Sony dropped Kevin Munroe (director of the Ratchet and Clank film) from the Sly Cooper Movie. In short, Kevin Munroe posted an excerpt of text to Instagram admitting that he got dropped by the entertainment giant. He doesn't reference Sly Cooper in the post, but what else could he mean? People come and go all the time in the production stage of a movie, but how could this impact an already delayed timeline? Let me know what you think in the comments, and I'll be addressing some of the recent major website updates around here shortly!

On this day fourteen years ago in 2002, the game that started it all - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - was released. The game was met with critical acclaim for being a revolutionary 3D platformer, became an instant classic, and essentially put small-time studio Sucker Punch Productions on the map. Words simply can't describe the extraordinary impact that this game has had on my life, and the lives of millions of fans across the globe. Fourteenth anniversaries aren't typically recognized, but the fate of Sly Cooper is yet again uncertain. Thus we should take today to reflect on what the series has meant for all of us and hope that one day soon we may be fortunate enough to play another game or see the highly anticipated movie. Thanks for all the memories and the good times, Sly. It's been a wild ride. ​

​First of all, this is entirely speculation, nothing here is confirmed. However, I have a feeling that Sucker Punch may be working on another Sly game. I was strolling around online recently, and noticed that things have been pretty quiet around Sucker Punch. It's been two years since they released Infamous: Second Son, and their website hasn't been updated since they launched the First Light DLC. I recently decided to enter the 21st century by creating a Twitter account, so I decided to check out Sucker Punch's profile to see what's up. The first Tweet that caught my eye was from a few days ago on May 4th. To celebrate Star Wars Day, they uploaded a picture of (presumably) an employee sporting a Chewbacca outfit. Pretty ordinary, except for the fact that she's holding a Cooper Cane. BUT WAIT! That's not just any Cooper Cane, that's the cane that was leaked by Sony way back in 2012 that many believed to indicate a collector's edition. Perhaps its nothing, or maybe they have the cane because Sanzaru turned over development, along with related materials (including unreleased collectors edition merchandise) to Sucker Punch. As I dug back through Sucker Punch's Twitter history, I found tons of tweets with references to Sly Cooper that just seemed odd to me. While Sucker Punch never tried burying the series and continued to hide Cooper easter eggs in their games, they always did try to keep their distance from the abandoned franchise to promote Infamous, and to stave off all the harassment they received from fans like us! Perhaps I am way off-base, but never fear, the conspiracy runs even deeper!