Respawn’s unnamed Star Wars first-person shooter, first confirmed by EA in January 2022, has reportedly been canceled because the writer pulls again on licensed video games amid a big spherical of layoffs.
On February 28, IGN reported that Respawn’s still-in-development Star Wars FPS had been canceled. The information was shared by way of a memo to employees from EA’s leisure president Laura Miele.
“It’s all the time onerous to stroll away from a challenge, and this determination just isn’t a mirrored image of the group’s expertise, tenacity, or ardour they’ve for the sport,” wrote Miele. “Giving followers the subsequent installments of the enduring franchises they need is the definition of blockbuster storytelling and the proper place to focus.”
In keeping with IGN, the group engaged on this now-cancelled Star Wars sport shall be moved to different initiatives together with Apex Legends, Iron Man, Black Panther, and a 3rd installment within the standard third-person motion collection, Star Wars: Jedi.
Kotaku has contacted EA for extra details about the canceled sport.
This information comes as EA confirmed extra cuts have been occurring on the writer. Earlier at present, EA introduced it was shedding round 670 folks. An e mail from CEO Andrew Wilson informed workers the layoff course of shall be “largely accomplished by early subsequent quarter.” This spherical of layoffs at EA is a part of beforehand reported cuts at Codemasters and Glu Cell.
Wilson’s e mail mentioned that is half of a bigger plan at EA to pivot away from licensed IP, which the writer doesn’t imagine shall be profitable within the “altering trade.” It was beforehand reported by GameIndustry.biz that this led to at the very least one sport being canceled, which seems to have been Respawn’s Star Wars FPS. This can be the identical Mandalorian-themed motion sport that was reported earlier this month.
