EA has seemingly scrapped one more shooter in improvement at Respawn Leisure, the beloved studio behind Titanfall (RIP), Apex Legends, and the Star Wars Jedi collection.
As reported by The Sport Put up, the information comes through a now-deleted LinkedIn publish from former manufacturing coordinator Emilee Evans, who wrote that the “unannounced Incubation challenge I used to be part of for the previous 12 months was canceled this week, so I’m becoming a member of the group of extraordinarily gifted and type folks within the video games business looking for a brand new position.”
We do not know a lot about what the unannounced challenge was or might have been, however previous job listings associated to the sport requested for a developer with expertise “designing multiplayer FPS experiences.”
What’s extra eyebrow-raising is the truth that that is the third scrapped shooter to return from Respawn in simply two years. In 2023, EA reportedly threw a single-player Titanfall and Apex Legends mash-up within the bin. A 12 months later, the studio’s Star Wars FPS, rumored to have been a Mandalorian recreation, was additionally canceled. Most curiously, all three cancellations have come simply after EA’s fiscal earnings reviews – virtually as if these choices are being made by the spreadsheets themselves!
For now, Respawn is seemingly engaged on a 3rd Star Wars Jedi recreation, extra Apex Legends replace, and finally an Apex Legends 2.0.
The dearth of something unique from the studio has been a large bummer over the previous couple of years, nonetheless. Titanfall 2 specifically is undoubtably probably the greatest shooters of all time – mixing first-person platforming, tense shootouts, and bombastic mech-shaped battles to create probably the most epic cocktail there may be. The only-player marketing campaign itself was additionally filled with continuous novel concepts, so it is a disgrace to see their FPS chops used solely to ship stay service slop and battle royale updates.
Respawn shooters is likely to be caught in a cancelation loop, however there are nonetheless many extra new video games coming in 2025 and past.
