{"id":844539,"date":"2025-04-29T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:12:16","slug":"ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs, Respawn Announces Two Cancelled Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<header>\n<section>\n<p>One was a Titanfall project<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/users\/253452\/avatar.jpg?v=1583410392\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Entertainment FraserG\"><\/li>\n<li>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/authors\/FraserG\">Fraser Gilbert<\/a> <span><\/span> <time data-days=\"5\" datetime=\"2025-04-29T19:56:00+00:00\">Yesterday, 8:56pm<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<section>\n<figure><a title=\"EA Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs, Respawn Announces Two Cancelled Games\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/45430df2f2d57\/ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/45430df2f2d57\/ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Entertainment EA Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs, Respawn Announces Two Cancelled Games\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve unfortunately got more news about job cuts to bring your way today, as a new report from Bloomberg is suggesting that around 300-400 jobs have been lost at EA, with around 100 of those being at Respawn Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Respawn has actually put out a statement confirming that two games have been cancelled internally, and Bloomberg says that one of those was an extraction shooter set in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/titanfall\">Titanfall<\/a> universe. Here&#8217;s a bit of Respawn&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As we sharpen our focus for the future, we&#8217;ve made the decision to step away from two early-stage incubation projects and make some targeted team adjustments across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite this, Respawn says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/apex_legends\">Apex Legends<\/a> will continue to expand and the next chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/star_wars_jedi_survivor\">Star Wars Jedi<\/a> series will aim to &#8220;raise the bar again for storytelling and gameplay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bloomberg quoted an EA spokesperson who advised the company has &#8220;made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources in service of driving future growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it sounds like any potential for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/04\/titanfall-3-is-suddenly-being-rumoured-again-but-apparently-its-not-real\">Titanfall 3<\/a> has been well and truly quashed now &#8211; and the more important thing is that we hope everyone affected by today&#8217;s job cuts lands on their feet ASAP.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of this? Let us know down in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>[source <a title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-29\/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game?\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-29\/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game?\">bloomberg.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/users\/253452\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Entertainment Fraser Gilbert\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/authors\/FraserG\"><span><\/span> Author Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"return replyTo('FraserG');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/#\"> Reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/04\/ea-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-respawn-announces-two-cancelled-games\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lloyd Pingree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One was a Titanfall project by Fraser Gilbert Yesterday, 8:56pm We&#8217;ve unfortunately got more news about job cuts to bring your way today, as a new report from Bloomberg is suggesting that around 300-400 jobs have been lost at EA, with around 100 of those being at Respawn Entertainment. Respawn has actually put out a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,967,23355],"tags":[8889,16437],"class_list":{"0":"post-844539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-hundreds","9":"category-respawn","10":"tag-hundreds","11":"tag-respawn"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844539","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=844539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}