According to data from the Game Industry Layoffs portal, the scale of layoffs in the gaming industry is gradually decreasing. By their calculations, gaming companies laid off a total of 632 employees in June.

Avalanche Studios Group announced the closure of two of its five internal studios. They have shut down the divisions in New York and Montreal.

Christopher Sandberg, co-founder of Avalanche, told about this in an interview with MinnMax.

The Xbox ranks may be replenished with new companies. The network started talking that Microsoft is eyeing the purchase of three more game studios: Crystal Dynamics, IO Interactive and Avalanche Studios. All of them are currently working on projects for the corporation.

The developers of the Just Cause series are now called Avalanche Studios Group. The change is of a formal nature. It allowed the company to focus on the fact that it is structurally divided into three businesses.

Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is dissatisfied with his compatriots from Avalanche Studios. This summer, the studio announced the game Generation Zero, the setting of which is very similar to the plots of Stalenhag’s works. The artist claims that he knew nothing about the project. Simon has no legal claims, but he is annoyed that his style was borrowed without asking.

Nordisk Film, which became a minority shareholder of Avalanche Studios last year, has now acquired the entire studio. The transaction amount was $103 million (€89 million).