Tomb Raider, Avengers Dev Opens New Office In Austin, Texas

Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind Tomb Raider and Marvel’s Avengers more recently, is expanding with a new office in Austin, Texas. The new studio is known as Crystal Southwest, and its developers will contribute to “all current and future Crystal Dynamics titles.”

Dallas Dickinson, a former BioWare veteran who worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic, is heading up Crystal Dynamics Southwest. The team is currently hiring, but it’s already staffed by a team of Crystal Dynamics veterans, though no other names were shared. The studio is “hard at work” and is hiring to continue to staff up as the outfit gets off the ground.

Crystal Dynamics’ main office is in Redwood Shores, California. The company opened a studio called Crystal Northwest in 2018, located in Bellevue, Washington.