Wildlight Entertainment, a New Studio Founded by Former Apex Legends and Titanfall Leaders
A Reported Director of a Cancelled Titanfall 3 Campaign is Part of the New Company.
The team, which is nearly completely composed of developers who have previously worked on Titanfall or Apex Legends, is presently recruiting for a number of senior positions.
Chad Grenier, a former game director of Apex Legends who previously worked on the teams of the original Modern Warfare games and the Titanfall games before Respawn leader Vince Zampella left Infinity Ward, is the head of Wildlight Entertainment.
Many other former Respawn developers have also gone within the last 14 months, joining Grenier.
That includes Mohammad Alavi, the former Modern Warfare and Titanfall designer who, until his departure last year, was working on a single-player adventure game that was allegedly a scrapped Titanfall campaign.
A single-player Titanfall experience for Apex Legends reportedly had been planned but was scrapped this month.
Carlos Peneda, the head designer for Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends, Jason McCord, José Zavala, Robert Tuabe, the lead technical artist Michael Cook, and others are present at Wildlight in addition to Alavi.
“We are a new, fully-funded entertainment studio hyper-focused on creating big, bold, original gaming universes of epic quality and scale,” reads a message on the team’s website.
“We’ve been quietly working on a new IP for some time, and while it’ll be a bit before we can say more, we’re beyond excited for what’s to come.”
Respawn’s secret, and now abandoned, Titanfall project, according to Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb, was an attempt to fit a “Titanfall-feeling product” inside of its wildly successful free-to-play spin-off, Apex Legends.
The game, which was slated to combine famous Apex characters with aspects from the Titanfall series, was apparently officially canceled internally by EA earlier this month.
In addition, EA publicly announced the closure of mobile studio Industrial Toys, the cancellation of Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile, a delay for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and the cancellation of Apex Legends Mobile.
According to Bloomberg, employees who were working on the canceled single-player game who couldn’t be transferred to other teams will be offered severance payouts and fired.
