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Respawn has announced the cancellation of mobile title Titanfall: Frontline, just four months after it was announced. The spin-off strategy card game was currently in closed beta on iOS and Android, but now the studio says it will shut down the servers at the end of January. The developer explained …
Read More »Titanfall 2’s digital sales haven’t picked up physical slack
EA and Respawn’s Titanfall 2 has not fared any better digitally than it has on the High Street. Superdata Research reports that worldwide digital sales of Titanfall 2 throughout October managed just a quarter of those achieved by its predecessor. That’s especially poor considering that digital sales were less established …
Read More »Respawn’s Zampella casts doubt on Titanfall’s future
The future of the Titanfall series is looking less certain than previously thought. Titanfall 2 launched last month to rave reviews, but sales have so far fallen far short of expectations – a fact blamed on EA’s decision to release the game sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: …
Read More »Titanfall 2 developers Respawn Entertainment give less information in patch notes
Respawn do away with percentages and numbers to "avoid influencing player expectations."
Read More »Respawn on Titanfall’s PS4 debut, its new story mode and facing Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty
When Titanfall launched in 2014, it was a new IP brimming with potential. Made by Respawn, a new developer formed from alumni of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare studio Infinity Ward, it looked like an interesting evolution of the first person shooter genre. Titanfall took the first-person shooter mechanics Respawn …
Read More »Respawn: ‘We are treating Titanfall 2 like a new IP’
It may have the number ‘2′ after its name, but Respawn is treating its Titanfall sequel like a new IP. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom, the studio’s COO Dusty Welch and art director Joel Emslie said that, as a result of the original Titanfall not launching on PS4, the franchise’s …
Read More »E3 2016: EA’s seven-studio Star Wars assault includes VR, new BioWare title
Sizzle reel teases more Battlefront content, Respawn’s lightsaber game, first glimpse of Visceral’s project
Read More »Respawn developing new Star Wars title
Former God of War director Stig Asmussen at the helm
Read More »Titanfall 2 has been officially announced, is multiplatform
Two years after we first learned that plans for the game were in place, Titanfall 2 has at last been officially announced. All we have for now is a short teaser, pointing to a full reveal in June. What do we know for sure? That the game is in development …
Read More »Divide and conquer: the next step for Respawn
Spurred by the success of Titanfall, Respawn Entertainment is gearing up its workforce for a follow-up to the robotic first-person shooter – as well as something completely new. HR and recruiting manager Kristin Christopher tells Matthew Jarvis who will fit the bill
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