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Microsoft's wave of game cancellations continues today with the news that Just Cause developer Avalanche's day-one Game Pass release Contraband has been cancelled. Citing sources, this was first ...
Avalanche Studios' upcoming co-op game Contraband has reportedly been canceled, following a wave of layoffs at publisher Xbox ...
Back in July, Xbox boss Phil Spencer described the actions taken as "tough decisions," claiming Xbox's "platform, hardware, ...
Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, the company have halted development work on 70s co-op smuggling game Contraband from Avalanche Studios.
Contraband - a game under development by Avalanche Studios (Just Cause) - has been suddenly cancelled by Microsoft.
In an interview ahead of 2K parent company Take-Two reporting its latest 2025 quarterly earnings, I asked CEO Strauss Zelnick ...
This article was originally published on www.dbltap.com as Microsoft axes Just Cause studio’s Contraband.
Avalanche Studios’ Contraband is no longer in active development, with the project now on hold as its future is evaluated. The news was first shared by Game File‘s Stephen Totilo and Bloomberg‘s Jason ...
This comes from Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, who posted on BlueSky that OD was 'still in development' as confirmed to ...
Xbox has stopped development of Contrabrand to "evaluate the project's future," with a Bloomberg report saying the game is ...
After all, we saw several games killed off and even shutting down the entire studio, The Initiative. When the dust started to settle, we didn’t see anything about Avalanche Studios’ Contraband. As a ...
IGN interviewed Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick on the troubled BioShock 4. Will it actually come out? Here's his response.