Respawn says they’re working on a new Titanfall project set to debut this year.
“We are also working on more Titanfall for later in the year (yes, I said the T word),” said Respawn CEO Vince Zampella via Twitter. “We love being able to experiment in this crazy universe!”
This news comes very shortly after Respawn stated that Apex Legends was the project they had been working on in recent years and that Titanfall 3 had seemingly been pushed aside in favour of the studio’s surprise battle royale hit. Based on the wording of Zampella’s tweet, there’s no reason to believe that the game he is referring to is Titanfall 3. Respawn just has too much going on, including the upcoming Jedi: Fallen Order game, for that to be possible.
Instead, this sounds like more of a spin-off project. Zampella notes that he’d love to experiment in this crazy universe, which would tend to suggest that whatever the team is working on will probably just take place somewhere in the Titanfall world (much like Apex Legends). As for what that project could be, it’s incredibly tough to say for sure. The Titanfall card game that Respawn had been working on has seemingly been cancelled, so that seems like an unlikely candidate.
It’s also highly doubtful that this upcoming project will be a fully-fledged FPS given how much attention is going towards the development of Apex Legends at this time. We suppose this could be some kind of expansion for Titanfall 2, but that doesn’t seem likely given how long it’s been since that game’s release. Put it all together and…well, we just hope it’s not the mobile title that it sounds like it could be.
In any case, it’s interesting to see that Respawn is hesitant to invoke the Titanfall name. This could be because they don’t want to raise people’s expectations or it could have something to do with their possibly tense relationship with EA.