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Respawn reportedly lay off staff across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi teams, cancel two incubation projects
Update: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has since reported that between 300 and 400 positions have been "eliminated" across EA, including around 100 at EA. One of the cancelled incubation projects was also apparently an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe. Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment have announced that two of its incubation projects have been cancelled, leading to what it calls a number of "target team adjustments across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi." You may notice that this language is particularly obtuse, in that it doesn't refer to these adjustments as layoffs. However, according to a report from IGN, layoffs have occurred, though just how many is currently unknown. Read more
Update: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has since reported that between 300 and 400 positions have been "eliminated" across EA, including around 100 at EA. One of the cancelled incubation projects was also apparently an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe.
Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment have announced that two of its incubation projects have been cancelled, leading to what it calls a number of "target team adjustments across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi." You may notice that this language is particularly obtuse, in that it doesn't refer to these adjustments as layoffs. However, according to a report from IGN, layoffs have occurred, though just how many is currently unknown.
