Avalanche Studios unveils Renegade Ops, a downloadable vehicle-based action game with up to four players battling to save the world from terrorists. Renegade Ops is coming to the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year from Sega.
Christopher Sundberg, top dog at Avalanche, creators of Just Cause 2, has come out against DRM claiming that it’s stupid and “does not stop piracy”. He also reasoned that developers should try giving hackers a job. More »
Can’t say that Just Cause 2′s brand of open world gun and explosions gameplay is the sort of thing that immediately appeals to me, but hook-shotting your way onto a helicopter or flying propane tank is undeniably appealing. More »
Just Cause 2 looks like it’s more than merely Bionic Commando set in some banana republic. There’s jet plane surfing!
The game is slated to skydive in next year. Hopefully it won’t feel as rushed as the previous title.
Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios is having to trim their staff by 77 people in the face of two lost publishing contracts over the past year, worth an estimated $US34 million. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Avalanche CEO Christofer Sundberg explains how the layoffs came about. “We lost the first deal in February but we could survive that one because we had a shortage of staff in other projects and we decided to put together a team to work on an original IP that we had in development. But the team that were working on a project that was terminated last week – there were about 67 people on that team.”
Swedish developer Avalanche Studios powered their free-roaming action title Just Cause with their own Avalanche Engine, and now they’re taking it to the next level with aptly named Avalanche Engine 2.0. The newly completed engine features support for truly huge environments without seams, as well as advanced character rendering systems for animation, facial rendering, and emotional modelling to simulate human behavior. Well it certainly renders some killer rocks. Perhaps they’ll show something a little meatier at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend, where Avalanche 2.0 will make its worldwide debut. More »
