Just Cause Developer Avalanche Studios Is The Latest Game Company To Announce Layoffs

Avalanche Studios is pursuing successful nan footsteps of truthful galore crippled developers this year. Today, nan institution posted a notice to its website announcing plans for a restructuring. Avalanche said it will adjacent its workplace successful Liverpool, impacting each unit members successful nan city. The institution said it will besides "reduce our workforce and restructure nan teams" astatine its studios successful Malmo and Stockholm, but did not supply specifics astir nan scope of those layoffs.

Although nan connection simply credited nan determination to "current challenges to our business and nan industry," it's difficult not to deliberation that nan cancellation of Avalanche's planned crippled Contraband had thing to do pinch nan existent request to consolidate. Microsoft ended progressive improvement connected nan task successful August during nan fallout from nan massive layoffs nan tech elephantine announced complete nan outpouring and summer. Those cuts appeared to effect nan destiny of galore different upcoming games and crippled studios that were moving pinch Microsoft arsenic either a developer aliases a publisher.

Since we won't get to cognize them for Contraband, Avalanche Studios will stay champion known for its Just Cause games of open-world mayhem for now. Contraband is nan only crippled presently listed arsenic a forthcoming title connected nan institution website, truthful it's unclear what nan adjacent moves for nan remaining squad members will be. The announcement closes by saying, "Despite these changes, we stay profoundly committed to providing astonishing games to our passionate subordinate communities." Hopefully they'll beryllium capable to bounce back.