A painful loss for Titanfall fans: among Respawn's cancelled projects was an extraction shooter in a familiar universe
The recent wave of layoffs at Electronic Arts has hit Respawn Entertainment, the creators of the legendary Titanfall and the popular Apex Legends, hard. In addition to the dismissal of about 100 employees, it became known that among the two cancelled "early" incubation projects of Respawn was a new extraction shooter, which would have been set in the beloved Titanfall universe.
Here's What We Know
Information about this appeared in the report of the reputable Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreyer. According to him, the project was codenamed "R7" and was at a very early stage of development, so it was still far from a full release. Details about the cancelled game in the Titanfall universe are not disclosed.
Despite the closure of this promising project, Respawn assured that it will support the laid-off employees, offering them, among other things, new opportunities within Electronic Arts. The Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi teams will continue to work on their current projects, including upcoming seasonal content and the "next chapter in the Star Wars Jedi series," a Star Wars Jedi sequel: Survivor, announced back in September 2023.
Respawn currently has at least three projects in development, not including the cancelled shooter. Apex Legends remains the studio's flagship project, on which it is constantly working to release seasonal content and large-scale game updates. In addition to the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn is also supporting the development of a single-player turn-based strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, Star Wars: Zero Company, which was recently announced and tells the story of a former Hawkeye Republic officer who leads an unusual group called Company Zero.
However, it is a pity that we will never see a new game in the Titanfall series.
Source: Bloomberg
