Avalanche Software is a video game developer studio responsible for developing Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company has developed for every console platform since the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES days and has grown to a staff of over 100 since its inception. The company is headed up by CEO John Blackburn.
History[]
In April 2005, Buena Vista Games (BVG), the video game publishing arm of The Walt Disney Company, acquired the Salt Lake City-based studio.[1] 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.[2] Disney Interactive Studios (DIS) merged Fall Line Studio into its sister studio, Avalanche Software, in January 2009.[3]
DIS in October 2012 announced "Toy Box", a cross platform gaming initiative where Pixar and Disney characters will interact from a console game to multiple mobile and online applications.[4] In January 2013, Avalanche Software unveiled the Toy Box cross platform game as Disney Infinity based on Toy Story 3 game's "Toy Box" mode crossed with a toy line.[5]
External links[]
- avalanchesoftware.com Official page
- Avalanche Software on Wikipedia