The studio also plans to ship a Mad Max video game in 2015

Aug 21, 2014 08:39 GMT  ·  By

Avalanche Studios, the creator of the Just Cause series, has teased that "several surprises" are coming in 2015, announcing plans to move to a much more spacious location next year.

The Stockholm-based company is currently working on a Mad Max video game adaptation, looking to release it sometime in 2015. The game is, as the title implies, a post-apocalyptic open-world adventure game loosely tied in with the upcoming movie reboot "Mad Max: Fury Road," starring Tom Hardy.

The company released a trailer for the video game back in April, showing the upcoming title's focus on vehicular combat, and ignoring the laws of physics that state that gasoline tends to go bad pretty fast, no matter how many gas stations you can find scattered around the desolate futuristic wasteland.

The Swedish developer also repeatedly teased working on Just cause 3 over the last few years, in spite of the fact that no outright confirmation of the game has been yet provided.

Back in April, the publisher of the open-world over-the-top action series, Square Enix, registered a domain name for Just Cause 3, leading many to speculate that the game was indeed in production.

Now, Avalanche is looking to move into a brand new office, a larger location that will house 160 developers, with 90 more working from Avalanche's New York City division.

The developer has also been working on supporting theHunter, a free-to-play multiplayer-focused hunting game released on Steam earlier this year, which proved to be pretty successful, drawing over 4 million players so far.

With the studio announcing "several surprises" coming in 2015 and an expansion planned, it certainly looks like the dev is up to something. An industry insider reports that one of the surprises will be in the form of Just Cause 3.

In a recent conversation on Twitter, Shinobi602 has stated that the game is "definitely under development," and that there is a "good chance" that Just Cause 3 is one of the surprises coming from Avalanche Studios.

Back in December of last year, Avalance released a video showing various team members traveling to a jungle in Costa Rica, in order to "research complex environments for future games." Considering the setting of the Just Cause games, it's likely that Just Cause 3 was one of the titles referenced by the team.

Mad Max is scheduled to ship on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC sometime in 2015, and you can watch the trailer below.