{"id":131567,"date":"2023-02-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-144481"},"modified":"2023-02-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T02:00:00","slug":"ea-has-reportedly-cancelled-its-single-player-apex-legends-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/ea-has-reportedly-cancelled-its-single-player-apex-legends-game\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Has Reportedly Cancelled Its Single-Player Apex Legends Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13d8aa56b09e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13d8aa56b09e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Apex Legends\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13d8aa56b09e\/apex-legends.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13d8aa56b09e\/apex-legends.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Apex Legends\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Electronic Arts<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in July last year, it was discovered EA and Respawn Entertainment were working on a brand new single-player adventure set in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/apex_legends\">Apex Legends<\/a> Universe.<\/p>\n<p>In a new development, Electronic Arts has reportedly cancelled the project, codenamed <strong>Titanfall Legends<\/strong>. &#8220;Three people familiar with the matter&#8221; have apparently confirmed this with Bloomberg. The same article explains how EA gave a &#8220;disappointing outlook&#8221; for revenue in the current quarter, and as a result, would also be cancelling Apex Legends for mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Management has apparently informed a team of about 50 people that EA will attempt to find new positions for them within the company. And anyone who can&#8217;t be reassigned to a new role will be given a severance package and let go.<\/p>\n<p>Although this seemingly marks the end of this project, Respawn&#8217;s battle royale is still thriving &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/05\/eas-live-service-battle-royale-game-has-now-generated-usd2-billion-in-earnings\">generating $2 billion in earnings<\/a> since its original launch in 2019. The free-to-play title was released on the Nintendo Switch in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:134286 @ 2023-02-02T05:15:27+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts about a possible cancellation of the single-player game? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Electronic Arts Back in July last year, it was discovered EA and Respawn Entertainment were working on a brand new single-player adventure set in the Apex Legends Universe. In a new development, Electronic Arts has reportedly cancelled the project, codenamed Titanfall Legends. &#8220;Three people familiar with the matter&#8221; have apparently confirmed this with Bloomberg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}