Development on Contraband has officially ended, with confirmation that the upcoming Xbox Series X game has been cancelled coming our way in August 2025. First announced back in 2021 with a brief teaser trailer, Contraband was set to be a co-op heist adventure that was being brought to life on the next generation Apex engine.
It was set to come to us from Just Cause, Mad Max, and Rage 2 developer Avalanche Studios among the Xbox Game Studios list of projects, and was going to bring us to a fictional world known as Bayan in the 1970s. Unfortunately, like some other big new games that were slated to arrive in the future, Contraband was among several projects affected by layoffs at Xbox, with reports that Everwild and the Perfect Dark reboot have also been cancelled.
