Simply Trigger developer Avalanche Studios has introduced that it is going to be closing its UK workplace and decreasing workers throughout others as a part of a serious restructuring effort. This transfer comes not lengthy after improvement on one in every of Avalanche Studios’ huge upcoming video games, Contraband, was placed on maintain by publishing accomplice Microsoft.
Initially revealed on the Xbox Video games Showcase in summer season 2021, Contraband was a collaborative effort between Avalanche Studios and Xbox Recreation Studios Publishing. Nevertheless, Avalanche went radio silent after the sport’s preliminary announcement, exhibiting no new screenshots or footage for over 4 years. Sadly, Avalanche was caught in July 2025’s sweeping Xbox layoffs, with Contraband‘s improvement being halted indefinitely and the venture’s future positioned beneath overview.
Avalanche is Shutting Down a Studio and Initiating Layoffs for the Others
The official statement disclosing Contraband‘s development pause did point out a future replace that may make clear whether or not Avalanche will proceed with the sport, and it now seems that will not be taking place. In an announcement posted on Avalanche’s official website, the corporate has revealed a brand new restructuring plan that impacts all three of its studios. Bearing the most important brunt right here is Avalanche’s Liverpool studio within the UK, which will likely be shuttered fully. Avalanche opened the Liverpool studio in 2020, and in simply 5 years, it is sadly closing its doorways endlessly.
Moreover, workforce reductions are deliberate for Avalanche’s Malmö and Stockholm studios in Sweden, with the latter being the principle workplace for the developer since 2003. Based on Avalanche, the choice to shut the Liverpool studio and reduce the personnel rely for others has been made to make sure the corporate’s “long-term success.” Although these restructuring efforts come lower than two months after improvement of Contraband was placed on maintain, Avalanche made no express reference to the sport and even the Microsoft layoffs, as an alternative blaming “present challenges” to its enterprise and the broader video games trade.
Avalanche’s enterprise hasn’t precisely been flourishing in recent times both. In June 2024, Avalanche shuttered its New York and Montreal offices, cumulatively shedding 50 workers. Because it stands, Avalanche has solely two operational workplaces, each in Sweden and impacted by the aforementioned workers cuts. It is unsure which tasks Avalanche is presently engaged on now that Contraband appears to be shelved for good, however following the layoffs, it will possible take a number of years for the corporate to announce something of substance. Leaks in 2022 instructed that Avalanche was engaged on a medieval motion recreation dubbed Ravenbound: Tales of Avalt, nevertheless it stays to be seen whether or not the venture has survived.
- Date Based
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March 1, 2003
- Headquarters
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Stockholm, Sweden
- Subsidiaries
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Expansive Worlds
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Simply Trigger
