EA is too busy laying off employees to make a new Titanfall game

Beloved video game publisher Electronic Arts canceled its upcoming Titanfall game and fired over 300 employees today. A third of the cuts, Variety reports, came from EA’s developer Respawn, the makers of the popular Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi series. In a statement on X, Respawn claimed it was making “some targeted team adjustments across” and stepping away from “two early-stage projects,” one being Titanfall, an Apex Legends progenitor that hasn’t seen an update since 2017. Though these “decisions aren’t easy,” the studio is “deeply grateful to every teammate” they’ve made redundant, whose “creativity and contributions have helped build Respawn into what it is today,” even if they won’t enjoy it tomorrow.