It has been a tough week at EA, with the corporate shedding virtually 700 workers members and cancelling an unannounced Mandolrian sport, however fortunately it isn’t all dangerous information.
Earlier this week, EA introduced it was shedding 5% of its workforce, which included closing Battlefield developer Ridgeline Video games, cancelling Respawn’s technically first-person Star Wars shooter (believed to be a few Mandalorian), and transferring away from creating video games based mostly on licensed IP. That is not fully true in the interim, as it’s going to nonetheless make a 3rd Star Wars Jedi sport, in addition to its Iron Man and Black Panther video games. And now, as confirmed by the developer of the sport itself, Bit Reactor has additionally confirmed that the Star Wars technique sport it was creating, with EA on publishing duties, remains to be within the works too.
“Final week was troublesome for the business, and extra so due to our sturdy relationships throughout the different groups at Respawn,” wrote Bit Reactor on Twitter. “However for these asking, we’re nonetheless onerous at work, and our sport was unaffected by final week’s information.” That was all it needed to say on the matter, seemingly as a result of nothing of the sport had even been proven off but. However based mostly on this affirmation, it is seemingly that the sport was bit additional developed than the first-person shooter – it does not make a lot sense for EA to not have cancelled it, in any other case.
The Star Wars technique sport was introduced again in 2022 as a collaboration between Bit Reactor and Respawn, with Respawn additionally confirmed to be engaged on the on the time untitled Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, in addition to the mysterious first-person shooter. Stories solely emerged in regards to the sport presumably being a few Mandalorian final month, full with supposed gameplay particulars. Whereas it is a disgrace for the sport to be cancelled, not less than the technique title persevering with improvement means there did not must be as many cuts as there might have been.