Rumble City comes from Just Cause maker Avalanche Studios.
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Just Cause maker Avalanche Studios moves into mobile with Rumble City — it’s like ‘biker chess’

Stockholm-based Avalanche Studios has become known for “explosive open worlds” with the Just Cause franchise and the upcoming Mad Max. Now the company is trying its hand at something completely different: a strategic battle board mobile game called Rumble City.

The move is Avalanche’s first foray into mobile games, which is expected to become a $30 billion market in 2015, according to market researcher Newzoo.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.