By Jennifer Maas
TV Enterprise Author
Xbox and Avalanche Studios have stopped “lively improvement” on their upcoming “Contraband” online game.
First introduced by Microsoft Gaming in 2021, “Contraband” is described as “a co-op smuggler’s paradise set within the fictional world of Nineteen Seventies Bayan.” The title from Avalanche Studios and Xbox Sport Studios was deliberate as an unique to Xbox Collection S and X consoles, and set for launch on Xbox Sport Cross, Steam, and Home windows 10 PC.
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Sources inform Selection that “Contraband” manufacturing is on maintain whereas the artistic crew behind the sport figures out subsequent steps for the title, which has been within the works for greater than 5 years.
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The cease for “Contraband” comes on the heels of layoffs throughout Microsoft final month, together with within the gaming division, and the cancellation of some titles. Nonetheless at the moment, sources say that no jobs at writer Xbox are being impacted by the choice to place “Contraband” improvement on maintain.
As for different exterior initiatives, the Xbox Publishing crew at present has video games within the works with exterior groups together with Kojima, Koei-Tecmo, Platinum, Asobo and extra.
“Over the previous a number of years, Avalanche Studios Group and Xbox Sport Studios Publishing have collaborated on ‘Contraband,’” Avalanche Studios said in a statement titled “An Replace on ‘Contraband’” posted to its web site Thursday. “Lively improvement has now stopped whereas we consider the undertaking’s future. We’re grateful for the joy we’ve seen from the group since we introduced and can give an replace on what’s subsequent as quickly as we will.”
The information that improvement has been paused on “Contraband” was first reported by Game File’s Stephen Totilo.
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