Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios is to lay off 20 staff.

Company CEO Christofer Sundberg said that the layoffs won’t impact the studio’s development of Eidos’ Just Cause 2 or Emote’s The Hunter. He also confirmed that an unannounced third project is in development at Avalanche.

"It is a difficult business climate, but this is not nearly on the scale of the redundancies last year," Sunberg told GamesIndustry.biz .

Back in October 2008 the company gave notice to 77 of its 160 staff due to the loss of two publishing contracts.

"As any other company we need to manage risks and sometimes that unfortunately means that we have to give notice and lay off staff. It's not more complicated than that," Sundberg added.