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  • Avalanche Software
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  • Avalanche Software is the company that made the original three Tak Games. They worked with THQ in order to achieve this. Avalanche was founded in 1995, and made games independently until 2005, when they were bought by a Walt Disney branch. After this they still made their own games, but now they make Disney games.
  • Avalanche Software was a video game developer studio, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company had 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 was headed up by CEO John Blackburn. Disney announced the closure of the studio on May 10, 2016.
  • Avalanche Software was a video game development company that specialized in producing games on home console platforms. The company was formed in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. Over the years, Avalanche grew slowly but steadily, and employed more than 100 people.
  • 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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  • near 300
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  • May 2016
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  • Avalanche Software
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  • Company
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  • Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • C
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Founded
  • October 1995
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  • 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. 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. 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.
  • Avalanche Software is the company that made the original three Tak Games. They worked with THQ in order to achieve this. Avalanche was founded in 1995, and made games independently until 2005, when they were bought by a Walt Disney branch. After this they still made their own games, but now they make Disney games.
  • Avalanche Software was a video game development company that specialized in producing games on home console platforms. The company was formed in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. Over the years, Avalanche grew slowly but steadily, and employed more than 100 people. When the company was young, they concentrated on porting games to console platforms. As time has passed, they created a set of proprietary tools to develop games for multiple platforms simultaneously. Avalanche produced games for every major platform since 1995, including the Super Nintendo, N64, PC, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. On April 19, 2005, Buena Vista Games announced to have acquired the studio. In 2011, Avalanche became an internal development studio of Disney Interactive Studios located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Next to many titles based on Disney licenses, in its last year the studio was best known for developing the Disney Infinity franchise. On May 10, 2016, Disney announced the studio would be closed.
  • Avalanche Software was a video game developer studio, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company had 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 was headed up by CEO John Blackburn. Disney announced the closure of the studio on May 10, 2016.
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