What it suspected, Blink the Mole is named as ''Blinky'', and he appears for the first time in Crash and Spyro Fusion before A Hero's Tail launch. Why he was named Blinky in his story?
Nina Cortex also appeared in Fusion before Twinsanity release, with a different personality to Twinsanity. The Twinsanity devs were mad about it.
I guess the Fusion devs were handed the wrong info or just made a mistake.