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What an eventful two weeks it has been! A story pack + title update each for both Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws accompanied by multiple award nominations. A good moment to take a breather and celebrate with drinks and pizza, before we head right back in! 🚀

Our newest story pack for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Secrets of the Spires is live! 🙌 Get ready to experience epic aerial battles in the Spires of the Clouded Forest, an all-new and spectacular mountainous region in Pandora’s Western Frontier 💙

🌟 We are incredibly proud to share that our accessibility work on recent releases has been recognized with an overwhelming eight nominations at the 2024 GAConf Accessibility Awards! From Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora being nominated in the categories “Best Motor/Mobility Accessibility” and “AAA Excellence” to Star Wars Outlaws being nominated for “Best Deaf/Hard of Hearing Accessibility”, “Best Blind/Low Vision Accessibility”, “Most Improved”, and “AAA Excellence” to Massive itself being nominated for “Most Dedicated Studio” and our very own Joost Peters being nominated for the “MVP Award of Unsung Hero”, we are honored to see our commitment to accessibility recognized and appreciated! To say it with the words of Joost: “This is a studio wide accomplishment, we should all be proud! Anyone in the studio who did anything related to accessibility, you helped us get these nominations. I'm glad I got to contribute to accessibility features in both Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and move accessibility forward for the industry and all players” 🙌

We’re honored that the Hollywood Music in Media Awards have chosen “The People’s Cry (Main Theme)” of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora for best Song in a Video Game 🎼 Huge congrats to composer Pinar Toprak and the team! 💙 Take a look behind the scenes of the score’s creation! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJ499s_a

🌟 Yesterday was a big day for Star Wars Outlaws! We launched Wild Card, our first story pack, bundled with our biggest title update yet, including several significant updates to the game. Also, the game is now available on Steam! 👀 Jump in and explore the Outer Rim! 🚀

Today, Star Wars Outlaws will get its first story pack: Wild Card, alongside several significant updates from Title Update 1.4. We are also proud to share that the game has been nominated thrice for The Game Awards 2024! ✨ Star Wars Outlaws has been nominated in the categories Best Action / Adventure Game and Innovation in Accessibility alongside the amazing Humberly Gonzalez for Best Performance, starring Kay Vess in the game! 🥳 Seeing the passion of our teams and their love for the universe being highlighted and celebrated through this nomination is incredible! You can vote for the nominees here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gy9VkdT

At Massive, we are passionate about our craft, about creating immersive worlds, and creating experiences that leave a standing impression on our players. It’s great to see this passion translate into putting Massive on the Universum list of Top 50 of the most attractive employers in Sweden’s growing IT sector! Do you want to be part of shaping the future of our beloved projects? Check out our current job openings here 👉https://lnkd.in/e2uQqqgD

Peek behind the curtains of our Star Wars Outlaws release party ✨ Between all the hard work and passion that goes into such an ambitious project, we love to take a moment to celebrate the big achievements, this time with our own cantina, costumes, drinks, food, and music! 🕺💃

Getting the chance to inspire new talent is always a pleasure! Two weeks ago, we invited young kids from around Malmö to a three-day coding course, giving them a peek behind the scenes of game development. 🎮🖥️ It’s been the third year in a row we have held the Future Coders Camp in our studio, together with our amazing partners from the non-profit organization DataTjej!

✨ We are happy to share that The Recording Academy has nominated Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws for the upcoming Grammy Awards! Congrats to composers Pinar Toprak and Wilbert Roget, II and our amazing audio teams led by Alex Riviere and Simon Koudriavtsev 🎼🎶