{"id":3478,"date":"2022-07-11T20:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/a-singleplayer-apex-legends-shooter-is-in-development-at-respawn\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:28:01","slug":"a-singleplayer-apex-legends-shooter-is-in-development-at-respawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/a-singleplayer-apex-legends-shooter-is-in-development-at-respawn\/","title":{"rendered":"A singleplayer Apex Legends shooter is in development at Respawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple new job listings have revealed that Respawn Entertainment is in the early stages of development on a new singleplayer shooter based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/apex-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Legends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.respawn.com\/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">job listings<\/a> are for positions in something called the Apex Universe FPS Incubation Project. Details are understandably scarce, but a couple of the listings for artists describe the game as &#8220;a brand new Respawn singleplayer adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Respawn has a lot going on these days and so there&#8217;s potential for confusion, but this game appears to be unrelated to previously revealed projects: Along with the Apex Universe FPS Incubation Project, Respawn is also looking for people to join a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/respawn-is-hiring-for-a-brand-new-singleplayer-adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Game Incubation Team<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/three-more-star-wars-games-on-the-way-from-respawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars FPS<\/a> Team\u2014which, for the record, is different from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-2-release-date-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of storytelling potential in Apex Legends, which features a remarkable depth and breadth of characters\u2014more than you might expect from a battle royale with no story mode. But some fans are hoping that the Apex moniker is a bit of a misdirect: Apex Legends is set in the Respawn&#8217;s Titanfall universe, and there&#8217;s a glimmer of faint, reluctant hope that this is actually Titanfall 3, and that Respawn is simply trying to avoid stoking the hype fires too early. Apex is also a more immediately recognizable brand than Titanfall, although I&#8217;m not sure how much consideration that particular factor would be given to job listings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some fans noticed the slight but significant change in verbiage:<\/p>\n<p>I suspect redittor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/titanfall\/comments\/vwiuil\/comment\/ifqgiiw\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No_Librarian_4016<\/a> has the best bead on the situation at this very early stage. &#8220;No you would have been hyped for a few months and then extremely angry when it wasn\u2019t Titanfall 3,&#8221; they wrote in response to someone complaining about the use of Apex instead of Titanfall. &#8220;Don\u2019t pretend people won\u2019t be mad no matter what.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Words to live by.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]A singleplayer Apex Legends shooter is in development at Respawn<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Multiple new job listings have revealed that Respawn Entertainment is in the early stages of development on a new singleplayer shooter based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/apex-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Legends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.respawn.com\/careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">job listings<\/a> are for positions in something called the Apex Universe FPS Incubation Project. Details are understandably scarce, but a couple of the listings for artists describe the game as &#8220;a brand new Respawn singleplayer adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Respawn has a lot going on these days and so there&#8217;s potential for confusion, but this game appears to be unrelated to previously revealed projects: Along with the Apex Universe FPS Incubation Project, Respawn is also looking for people to join a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/respawn-is-hiring-for-a-brand-new-singleplayer-adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Game Incubation Team<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/three-more-star-wars-games-on-the-way-from-respawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars FPS<\/a> Team\u2014which, for the record, is different from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-2-release-date-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of storytelling potential in Apex Legends, which features a remarkable depth and breadth of characters\u2014more than you might expect from a battle royale with no story mode. But some fans are hoping that the Apex moniker is a bit of a misdirect: Apex Legends is set in the Respawn&#8217;s Titanfall universe, and there&#8217;s a glimmer of faint, reluctant hope that this is actually Titanfall 3, and that Respawn is simply trying to avoid stoking the hype fires too early. Apex is also a more immediately recognizable brand than Titanfall, although I&#8217;m not sure how much consideration that particular factor would be given to job listings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some fans noticed the slight but significant change in verbiage:<\/p>\n<p>I suspect redittor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/titanfall\/comments\/vwiuil\/comment\/ifqgiiw\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No_Librarian_4016<\/a> has the best bead on the situation at this very early stage. &#8220;No you would have been hyped for a few months and then extremely angry when it wasn\u2019t Titanfall 3,&#8221; they wrote in response to someone complaining about the use of Apex instead of Titanfall. &#8220;Don\u2019t pretend people won\u2019t be mad no matter what.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Words to live by.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}