Xbox ceased the development of Contrabrand to “assess the future of the project”, with the Bloomberg report, in which the game was canceled completely four years after the first announcement of E3.
Journalist Bloomberg Jason Screen first He published news about BlueSky todaySaying that “Xbox cancels the contraband, announced in 2021 in Avalanche Studios (simply the reason), after four years of radio silence, the sources inform Bloomberg News.”
This happened after that Official confirmation with Avalanche on your websitewhich sounds as follows:
Over the past few years, Avalanche Studios Group and Xbox Game Studios Publishing have collaborated with Contranda. Active development has now stopped during the assessment of the future of the project. We are grateful for the emotions we have seen from the community, since we have announced and we will give an update of what will be as soon as possible.
Contraband was originally announced on Xbox and PC on E3 2021 with a trailer. At that time, we knew that he would be set up in the 80s smuggler paradise called Bayan, but we didn’t see any game. Since then, we saw nothing more in the game or have heard any progress in its development. However, we reported that in 2022 management and employees tried to have controversial employment and lack of subsequent communication, a dispute, which later inspired the studio to create the official Union club and pressure to sign a collective agreement.
Meanwhile, Xbox cancels designs to the left and right among mass dismissal last month in which 9,100 jobs were eliminated by Microsoft, including hundreds of games. As a consequence, we learned that games, including Everwild and Perfect Dark, were canceled.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior Ign reporter. You can find her post on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.skyla. Do you have a hint with history? Send it to ralentine@ign.com.
