Crash Bandicoot: A Mascot returns?

There where some rumours of Sony buying the rights of Crash Bandicoot of Activision. This all happend when the Sony Commercial #4th players revealed some images like the one below:

At 0:49 you see some traffic signs with an image of the Crash!

Some really eagle eyed reddit users cocobandicoot and holmesy spotted something very interesting about the Crash Bandicoot franchise. Activision removed the crash bandicoot franchise from it's timeline and any reference on it's website.

Is this the sign of a Mascot returning? Will we once again battle against Dr. Cortex?

The orginal post from Reddit:

The official Crash Bandicoot website, owned and operated by Activision, has been taken down. The latest archived version of the site is from this past summer, when rumors of a Sony acquisition of the franchise started popping up.

http://www.activision.com/search?cc=US;i=1;q=crash%20bandicoot