Respawn, The Developer of Apex legends And the star wars Jedi Series, Announced that It’s Laying Off An Unknown Number of Staff and Canceling Two Early-Stage Projects in Order to Focus more on its Flagship Titles. The Studio Posted a statement on social media confirming the “targeted team adjustments” and the canceled projects, and its Commitment to “Player-First Experiences.”
The company said, “As we sharpen our future, we’ve made the decision to step away from JEDI It also added that the laid-off employees have the option to explore “New Opportunities Within Ea.”
The developer didnight REY DETALS about The Incubation Projects that have been shut down. According to ignOne of that Incubation Projects was the Multiplayer FPS, the cancellation of which was the first reveled back in March, and some of that working on the projects have been ressigned to ea motive.
This is not the first time Respawn’s Been Hit With Layoffs, Nor a first for electronic arts as a whole. The publisher Laid off 670 people Last Year and also canceled a then-in-Develoopment star wars fps (seemingly not the same as the incubation project mentioned above). It also Had Two Rounds of Layoffs in 2023, Including 6% of Staff in March and 50 people at developer bioware in August.