Avalanche Studios

Avalanche Studios is an independent, privately held video game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in March 2003 by Christofer Sundberg, Linus Blomberg and Viktor Blomberg. Avalanche Studios focuses on developing original intellectual properties for games and other media and base their projects on the Avalanche Engine. The Avalanche Engine is a unique games technology powering landscapes in explicit detail.

It has been reported on 24 October 2008 that 77 employees were laid off due to Avalanche losing two publishing contracts.

24 March Avalanche announced that they formed a new development studio called Expansive Worlds which will be the casual and online games division with a strong focus on community-driven subscription-based titles.

Games

 * 2006 – Just Cause
 * 2009 – theHunter
 * 2010 – Just Cause 2
 * 2011 – Renegade Ops
 * TBA – AionGuard
 * TBA – Fury Road
 * Unconfirmed - Just Cause 3