Announced with great fanfare at The Game Awards 2020, Just Cause Mobile promised a AAA experience open-world on smartphones with all the playful devastation the series has to offer. Extremely ambitious, the mobile opus was to contain a single-player campaign, 4-player co-op and 30-player competitive multiplayer.
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Initially planned for 2021, Just Cause Mobile shyly pointed the tip of his early access regional in Singapore that year before spreading just as timidly to other countries. Square Enix had warned that the global release of the game would be delayed to 2022, with teams having to adapt to “new ways of working“. But the snowball effect is cruel, and Just Cause Mobile also missed this second boat, getting bogged down in a final delay before definitely taking on water last week.
“It is with sadness that we announce the end of the development of Just Cause Mobile“, comments Anne-Lou Grosbois-Favreau. “As of July 3, 2023, the game will no longer appear in online stores. It’s never easy to announce a decision of this nature, especially to our fans who have been waiting for the final version. We sincerely appreciate your support.“The premium in-game currency, Blue Diamonds, were fully refunded to their buyers as of February 24. An early symptom of this last breath.
As for Avalanche Studios, the fathers of the franchise, they continue to work in silence on Contraband, an open-world adventure that will return to the 1970s to teach us the basics of smuggling (no laughing) in a hostile environment. Announced in June 2021, published by Xbox Games Studios (therefore exclusive to PC and Xbox Series), the project has not given any sign of life for a while.