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'We Had Everything from Crimson Desert': Just Cause Dev Recalls Cancelled Fantasy Game

Dragon it out. Crimson Desert has obviously made a colossal splash recently, and that's prompted Avalanche co-founder Christofer Sundberg speak up on his former studio's old project. Said project was called AionGuard, which you may have heard of back in the day. This thing was in development during the PS3 generation, and Sundberg reckons it had a lot in common with Pearl Abyss' open world epic. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Just Cause studio's canned dragon-riding fantasy romp AionGuard "would have been Crimson Desert", reckons former Avalanche creative head

Back in the late 2000s, Just Cause developers Avalanche ended up in a publishing pickle with a fantasy open-worlder they were working on. It was dubbed AionGuard, and ex-Avalanche chief creative officer Christofer Sundberg reckons that had it not ended up chucked on the cancellation bonfire, the game would've done a lot of the same things which've helped make Crimson Desert a hit all these years later.

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Avalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'

"We had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert in the plans for that game."

PC Gamer / Jeremy Peel

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