Respawn Opening Vancouver Studio to Focus on Apex Legends
Even though the news that no new Titanfall game is in development at the moment is a bummer, it certainly isn?t doom and gloom with developer Respawn. The studio?s little engine that could in Apex Legends is still wildly popular and continues to be the team?s focus for the future. This was cemented even further today in news reported by GameIndustry.Biz that Vancouver, British Columbia is the home of a new studio location for Respawn, one that will focus solely on its team-based battle royale shooter. This new site will see leadership from head of operations Henry Lee and team director Steven Ferreira, in addition to Apex Legends game director Chad Grenier. ?Vancouver is full of talented people in the games industry, so there was a natural fit with Steven coming on board with his core team and really establishing that foundation,? said Lee to GI.Biz. Publisher EA already hosts a campus in Vancouver, where games such as Star Wars Battlefront II, the FIFA series, and the NHL franchise games are developed. According to Lee, the Respawn team was already working out of Vancouver while handling internal hiring. The team now looks to external hiring and plans on bringing in up to 80 additional people to the campus. In regards to the hiring, Ferreira said ?Rather than list out the thing we want to get done and therefore what roles we need, we started off with: we know we want to build Apex, and Apex has a huge opportunity to evolve in the future, being a live service game. And so...
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