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 through a memo to employees from EA’s leisure president Laura Miele.
“It’s at all times exhausting to stroll away from a venture, and this choice shouldn’t be a mirrored image of the staff’s expertise, tenacity, or ardour they’ve for the sport,” wrote Miele. “Giving followers the subsequent installments of the long-lasting franchises they need is the definition of blockbuster storytelling and the fitting place to focus.”
In response to IGN, the staff engaged on this now-cancelled Star Wars recreation will probably be moved to different tasks together with Apex Legends, Iron Man, Black Panther, and a 3rd installment within the fashionable third-person motion sequence, Star Wars: Jedi.
Kotaku has contacted EA for extra details about the canceled recreation.
This information comes as EA confirmed extra cuts had been taking place on the writer. Earlier at this time, EA introduced it was shedding round 670 individuals. An electronic mail from CEO Andrew Wilson advised workers the layoff course of will probably be “largely accomplished by early subsequent quarter.” This spherical of layoffs at EA is a part of beforehand reported cuts at Codemasters and Glu Cellular.
Wilson’s electronic mail stated that is half of a bigger plan at EA to pivot away from licensed IP, which the writer doesn’t imagine will probably be profitable within the “altering business.” It was beforehand reported by GameIndustry.biz that this led to not less than one recreation being canceled, which seems to have been Respawn’s Star Wars FPS. This can be the identical Mandalorian-themed motion recreation that was reported earlier this month.