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Just Cause 2 Goes Gaga For Grappling
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft
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.
Avalanche’s Lost Contracts Claim 77 Jobs
3:20AM Mike Fahey | 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.” More »
