Xbox and Avalanche Studios have stopped “active development” on their upcoming “Contraband” video game. First announced by Microsoft Gaming in 2021, “Contraband” is described as “a co-op smuggler's paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan.

Xbox has stopped development of Contrabrand to "evaluate the project's future," with a Bloomberg report saying the game is canceled entirely four years after its initial E3 announcement.

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox gaming unit is canceling Contraband, a multiplayer video game that was in development for years at the Swedish company Avalanche Studios Group.“Active development has now stopped while we evaluate the project’s future,