{"id":608868,"date":"2023-02-17T02:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/former-apex-legends-titanfall-devs-create-new-studio-wildlight-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T02:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:49:42","slug":"former-apex-legends-titanfall-devs-create-new-studio-wildlight-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/former-apex-legends-titanfall-devs-create-new-studio-wildlight-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Apex Legends, Titanfall Devs Create New Studio, Wildlight Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<article itemscope data-type-id=\"1100\" data-guid=\"1100-6511617\">\n<section>\n<div data-content-element-selector=\"p, .js-buylink-item-container\" data-allowed-classes-selector=\"js-buylink-item-container\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wildlight Entertainment&#8211;a new studio staffed by many devs who previously worked on Apex Legends and Titanfall&#8211;announced itself on social media.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WildlightEnt\">Meet the Team page<\/a>, Chad Grenier&#8211;who was at Respawn Entertainment for around 11 years&#8211;serves as Wildlight&#8217;s studio head and game director. Grenier was the ex-game director for Apex Legends and also worked on Titanfall 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WildlightEnt\/status\/1626290408279113729\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hello, world! We&#8217;re very excited today to announce our new game studio, Wildlight Entertainment. We&#8217;ve got big dreams of creating an epic shooter IP. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjjqF3jcmA\" rel=\"nofollow \">pic.twitter.com\/EjjqF3jcmA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 Wildlight Entertainment (@WildlightEnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WildlightEnt\/status\/1626290408279113729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Grenier is joined by many of his former Respawn Entertainment employees, including design director Jason McCord, lead designers Mohammad Alavi and Carlos Pineda, and many more. Alavi, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-02-01\/electronic-arts-cancels-secret-apex-legends-game-in-development\" rel=\"nofollow \">Bloomberg<\/a><span> report, was attached to a now-cancelled single-player game set in the Titanfall and Apex Legends universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This isn&#8217;t the first time a new studio has been created by former Respawn Entertainment developers. In 2020, Apex Legends executive producer Drew McCoy and lead programmer Jon Shiring left to found <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/business\/apex-legends-leads-leave-respawn-to-form-triple-a-gravity-well-studio\/\" rel=\"nofollow \">Gravity Well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Respawn Entertainment and EA announced a slew of game cancellations in Feburary. As previously mentioned, EA pulled the plug on development of the single-player game codenamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ea-canceled-single-player-titanfall-or-apex-legends-game-report\/1100-6511088\/\">Titanfall Legends<\/a>. According to Jeff Grubb on an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/canceled-apex-legends-game-wasnt-titanfall-3-but-would-have-featured-everyones-favorite-titan\/1100-6511126\/\">Giant Bomb&#8217;s Game Mess Mornings podcast<\/a>, Titanfall Legends wasn&#8217;t Titanfall 3. It reportedly would&#8217;ve instead featured Commissioner Kuben Blisk as a playable character with various Apex Legends characters making cameos.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/apex-legends-mobile-is-shutting-down-for-good-in-90-days\/1100-6511047\/\">mobile Apex Legends game<\/a> is also getting shut down, and the game will end on May 1.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n    <span data-nosnippet>The products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors.<br \/>\n      GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site.<br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/mailto:ne**@******ot.com\" data-original-string=\"QFzPfvrrefeMdlrbEcrpFA==7f45v9MbP1Sdp06HNboNMtZzJzEGxxLGwBBpL2UPPWWyAGWJ1TliU6QGPJc7Kudysxq1btbamHo4CVPO9ZO\/Hv9MYWwaIMwFlSVdla8S4xdNhw=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ne<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>ot.com<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/former-apex-legends-titanfall-devs-create-new-studio-wildlight-entertainment\/1100-6511617\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Blythe Drews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlight Entertainment&#8211;a new studio staffed by many devs who previously worked on Apex Legends and Titanfall&#8211;announced itself on social media.From the Meet the Team page, Chad Grenier&#8211;who was at Respawn Entertainment for around 11 years&#8211;serves as Wildlight&#8217;s studio head and game director. Grenier was the ex-game director for Apex Legends and also worked on Titanfall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,148,4594],"tags":[6221,5596],"class_list":{"0":"post-608868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-former","9":"category-legends","10":"tag-former","11":"tag-legends"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}