{"id":78,"date":"2025-05-08T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/2025\/05\/08\/contraband-might-also-be-killed-off-after-fans-uncover-the-trailer-is-now-private\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:58:51","slug":"contraband-might-also-be-killed-off-after-fans-uncover-the-trailer-is-now-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Contraband Might Also Be Killed Off After Fans Uncover The Trailer Is Now Private"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an incredibly messy day for Microsoft yesterday. There were headlines after headlines about studios experiencing layoffs and game cancellations. We\u2019re still seeing some reports emerge from this round of layoffs that occurred within the company. However, one game that remains a mystery regarding its current production status is Contraband<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know the full extent of this latest round of layoffs that Microsoft is experiencing yet. One project that could be finding itself no longer in the works is Contraband<\/em>. X user, olvier_drk, found that the game announcement trailer on the official Xbox YouTube channel was removed. Now, speculation is running rampant as to whether Avalanche Studios is no longer developing this project.<\/p>\n

For those unaware, Avalanche Studios is the folks behind the Just Cause <\/em>franchise, and their latest game to hit the marketplace was 2019\u2019s Rage 2<\/em>. Contraband <\/em>is their current project, published under Xbox, which is still supposedly in development; however, we haven\u2019t seen any gameplay footage for it yet. Instead, we\u2019re working off a CGI trailer and little tidbits of information.<\/p>\n

We knew that this was set to be a co-op heist-style game set in the 1970s. However, as noted, the trailer has since been removed, leaving us wondering what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s possible that the game was scrapped after Microsoft decided to scale back on several projects. For instance, we recently reported that Romero Games was forced to cancel their upcoming AAA FPS game after discovering that Bethesda had decided to back out as the game\u2019s publisher. That said, the cancellation of Romero Games\u2019 FPS title appears to have led to the entire studio being shut down.<\/p>\n

That might not be the case for Avalanche Studios. As others have noted online, this could have been a move due to the expiration of the music licensing deal used in the trailer. So, for now, we\u2019ll have to wait and see if there\u2019s any official word regarding whether we can still expect Contraband <\/em>at some point or if this was another game that was shelved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was an incredibly messy day for Microsoft yesterday. There were headlines after headlines about studios experiencing layoffs and game cancellations. We\u2019re still seeing some reports emerge from this round of layoffs that occurred within the company. However, one game that remains a mystery regarding its current production status is Contraband. We don\u2019t know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[49,50,10,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yyqiuxia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}