Dusty Welch, COO of the EA studio, has announced the opening of a new headquarters dedicated exclusively to the development of the battle royale.
Such is the success and popularity of Apex Legends, the battle royale of Respawn Entertainment and EA, that the developer studio itself has announced the opening of a new headquarters dedicated exclusively to said video game; This was shared by his COO, Dusty Welch, in a recent interview with the GamesIndustry media, assuring that they have a lot of work ahead and that they will dedicate great efforts in its expansion for a long time.
New Respawn studio in Vancouver
Thus, the new studio of Respawn Entertainment will be located in Vancouver, a city where Electronic Arts already has several video game development venues. And from what it seems, the opening project is more than advanced since there is already a team in charge of it with Henry Lee as director of operations, Steven Ferreira as team manager and Ghad Grenier as director of the video game.
With the opening of these new Respawn offices in Vancouver, EA intends to free up the original studio located in California from workload so that its creatives and programmers can now dedicate themselves to new projects. New video games that according to their managers do not go through a new Titanfall, as they have been assuring on not a few occasions during this last year.
According to Welch himself, the project to open the new offices comes from afar and has not been something improvised; Likewise, he assures that they could not be delayed any more despite the current situation of global confinement: “Regarding the opening of a new study, I think that these are interesting times. This allows Respawn to rethink its approach to video game development. Historically we have always thought 'it has to be in the place, it is the culture that we have created within these walls', but today we cannot say the same. And we probably won't be able to say it again, ever, ever, ”concludes the new COO.
