Apex Legends and Titanfall developer Respawn Leisure was reportedly engaged on a brand new multiplayer shooter. Whereas it hadn’t been formally introduced, as caught by The Recreation Publish, a former worker of the studio signifies that it might have been cancelled.
Taking to LinkedIn in a since-deleted submit, former government assistant and manufacturing coordinator at Respawn Emilee Evans confirmed the cancellation of an unannounced “incubation venture”.
“The unannounced incubation venture 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 proficient and type folks within the video games business trying to find a brand new function,” she posted.
Contemplating the truth that Evans is now on the lookout for a brand new function within the business, there are probabilities that others that had been engaged on the sport over the past 12 months have additionally been laid off, or moved to a different venture.
Within the meantime, Respawn could start engaged on a brand new model of its fashionable battle royale Apex Legends. Revealed throughout a current quarterly earnings name, EA CEO Andrew Wilson has mentioned that, whereas ongoing assist for Apex Legends will nonetheless proceed, in the long run, “a extra significant replace” for the title will likely be wanted.
This stems from Wilson stating that the enterprise trajectory of Apex Legends, regardless of its unique success, has been on a downward pattern.
“Apex might be one of many nice new launches in our business over the past decade and has been beloved by that core cohort,” mentioned Wilson. “We’ve had over 200 million folks play the sport. Nevertheless, the trajectory of the enterprise of that franchise has not been headed within the route that now we have needed for a while.”
The long-term plan of an enormous replace to Apex Legends was referred to by Wilson as a 2.0 model of the sport. Nevertheless, he did say that this long run concept will solely be potential after the discharge of the subsequent Battlefield recreation.
“The second part, and I feel I’ve talked about this earlier than, is we do imagine there will likely be a time the place we have to do a extra significant replace of Apex as a broad recreation expertise, and the staff is diligently engaged on that. You need to think about we most likely wouldn’t drop that on prime of a Battlefield launch,” mentioned Wilson. “So from a timing standpoint, our pondering proper now’s that that may exist post-Battlefield.”
“Someday on a longer-term time horizon, there will likely be a fair greater, extra significant replace to that broader recreation expertise,” he mentioned. “An Apex 2.0, if you’ll. This won’t be the ultimate incarnation of Apex.”
Except for Apex Legends, the latest title by Respawn Leisure was Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. Try our evaluation for extra particulars. The studio’s final shooter earlier than Apex Legends was the critically-acclaimed Titanfall 2. Learn our evaluation of that recreation for extra.
