Avalanche Software
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| Industry | Video games |
| Fate | Active |
| Founded | October 3, 1995 (original) January 24, 2017 (re-launch) |
| Defunct | May 2016 (original) |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Key people
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John Blackburn (CEO) |
| Owner | Independent (1995-2005) Disney (2005-2016) Time Warner (2017-present) |
| Parent | Independent (1995-2005) Disney Interactive Studios (Disney Interactive) (2005-2016) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Warner Bros. Entertainment) (2017-present) |
| Website | avalanchesoftware |
Avalanche Software, LLC is a video game developer studio, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company has developed for every console platform since the Mega Drive/Genesis and Super NES days and has grown to a staff of over 100 since its inception. The company is headed up by CEO John Blackburn.
The studio had been acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2005, and spent the next ten years developing Disney-related titles, including the toys-to-life game Disney Infinity in 2013. By 2016, the toys-to-life market had started to falter, and Disney closed down the studio in May 2016. The studio was acquired and re-opened by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in January 2017, with Blackburn returning as CEO.
As an independent studio, Avalanche Software was responsible for a number of video games and ports, notably creating Tak and the Power of Juju and the Tak franchise in conjunction with Nickelodeon.
In April 2005, Buena Vista Games (BVG), the video game publishing arm of The Walt Disney Company, acquired the Salt Lake City-based studio. BVG formed a new game studio, Fall Line Studio, in November 2006 to create Disney and new game titles for Nintendo DS and the Wii console.Disney Interactive Studios (DIS) merged Fall Line Studio into its sister studio, Avalanche Software, in January 2009.
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