Avalanche Studios Group

Avalanche Studios Group is a Swedish interactive entertainment company focused on AAA open-world games, self-publishing and systemic gameplay. Founded in Stockholm in 2003 by Christofer Sundberg and Linus Blomberg, the company developed a reputation for large-scale action worlds shaped by physics, emergent player interactions and expansive outdoor environments.

The group’s proprietary Apex Engine, originally known as the Avalanche Engine, underpins its approach to rendering broad terrain, weather systems and systemic destruction. Its work spans full-cycle development for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, alongside internal technology development, publishing and live operations.

Games and creative units

Avalanche Studios Group’s catalogue includes the Just Cause series, Mad Max, Rage 2, Renegade Ops and Rumble City. Its outdoor-simulation work includes theHunter, theHunter: Primal, theHunter: Call of the Wild and Call of the Wild: The Angler. Other projects include Generation Zero, Second Extinction, Ravenbound and the co-op heist game Contraband.

In 2020, the company adopted the Avalanche Studios Group name and organized its work across three creative units: Avalanche Studios for AAA external co-development, Expansive Worlds for outdoor simulations, and Systemic Reaction for self-published experimental projects. The group has also collaborated with publishers and development partners including Warner Bros. Interactive, Bethesda Softworks, id Software and Xbox Game Studios.

Current operations

Following an acquisition by Nordisk Film in 2018, Avalanche Studios Group operates as part of Nordisk Games / Nordisk Film, within the Egmont Group. After consolidating its international footprint, the active organization is anchored in Sweden, with its global headquarters in Stockholm and a development branch in Malmö.

Its specialties include open-world development, systemic and emergent gameplay design, ecological hunting and fishing simulations, physics-driven action, procedural destruction, multiplatform AAA production and live-service operations.