{"id":15084,"date":"2011-10-27T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"avalanche-squashes-just-cause-3-2012-release-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15084-avalanche-squashes-just-cause-3-2012-release-rumours","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche squashes Just Cause 3 2012 release rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days a rumour has been circulating that Avalanche Studios is currently working on Just Cause 3 and that the game will be released next year.<\/p>\n<p>The studio has released and official statement on the matter, squashing the rumour outright.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a rumour and we&#8217;re not releasing any game in 2012,&#8221; Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-10-27-avalanche-scotches-just-cause-3-rumour\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original rumour has been traced back to Xbox World Magazine, who cited &#8220;spies&#8221; as their source when they reported that Just Cause 3 was planned for release next year.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche has stated that they are working on two &#8220;huge titles&#8221;, both of which are planned for release in 2013. The developer has not confirmed that Just Cause 3 is one of them, although it seems likely that this is the case, seeing as that Just Cause 2 received generally positive reviews and did relatively well at retail.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19566-Avalanche-refutes-Just-Cause-3-2012-release-rumours\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Avalanche squashes Just Cause 3 2012 release rumours\"><strong>Avalanche squashes Just Cause 3 2012 release rumours<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We&#039;re not releasing any game in 2012&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}