In recent weeks, we’ve been gradually hearing about significant waves of layoffs in the gaming industry every few hours. This week, among others, publisher Electronic Arts announced plans to lay off some employees and result in a restructuring. This restructuring also resulted in upcoming Star Wars first-person shooter canceled, developed by Respawn Entertainment. In this context, EA management said that Respawn should focus more on its own brands in the future, especially the battle royale Apex Legends and the successful Star Wars Jedi series. It currently includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023), a comic book. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – Dark Temple and the novel Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars.
At the beginning of 2022, we already learned that three Star Wars games will be created under the control of Respawn. In addition to a sequel to Fallen Order and the now-canceled first-person shooter, which was unofficially rumored to recently feature an unknown Mandalorian bounty hunter, it was also announced at the time. working on some strategic project. At the same time, the development of a strategy from a galaxy far, far away was entrusted to the independent studio Bit Reactor, which was founded by veterans from Firaxis Games (Civilization, X-COM). In this case, Respawn employees were tasked with overseeing Bit Reactor and helping the relatively young creative team develop its first AAA title. And since Respawn is owned by Electronic Arts, the game will naturally be published by EA. In the same time but not a word was said about her when the company’s restructuring and layoffs were announced.
Source :Indian TV
