Skylanders: Swap Force (stylized as Skylanders: SWAP Force) is a 2013platform game developed by Vicarious Visions and Beenox and published by Activision. It is the third main game in the Skylanders video game and toy franchise following 2012's Skylanders: Giants which was a direct sequel to 2011's Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. It is the first Skylanders game to be released in North America before other regions unlike the previous two games where Australia got the installments first. It is also the first Skylanders game not to be owned by Vivendi.