Marcus Lehto – co-creator of the Halo universe and former lead of the just lately shuttered Ridgeline Video games – says he does not have “something constructive to say about EA”.
On the finish of February, Lehto confirmed he had left EA “alone accord”, and would now take time away from video video games to work out “what, if something, I need to do subsequent”. The director later admitted feeling “gut-punched to see EA lay off my crew. So many very proficient devs who had been extremely beneficial to the Battlefield franchise”.
Within the newest assertion posted to X/Twitter, Lehto merely stated: “Not been saying a lot right here since I haven’t got something constructive to say about EA, my current departure, and the way so many, together with my crew, are struggling because of the trade sweeping layoffs”.
Ridgeline – beforehand led by Lehto – had been engaged on a narrative-led Battlefield marketing campaign. The venture will now be accomplished by Want for Pace studio Criterion Video games.
The information about Ridgeline got here as a part of an extra wave of layoffs at EA, with 5 per cent of the corporate – round 670 individuals – set to be let go. That is on prime of the six per cent of EA’s workforce the writer made redundant in March final 12 months.
As Tom summarised for us on the time, when asserting the information, EA boss Andrew Wilson stated the corporate was transferring away from “future licensed IP” to concentrate on “owned IP, sports activities, and big on-line communities”. The corporate’s in-progress Black Panther and Iron Man titles stay in improvement; nevertheless, a Star Wars shooter being developed by Apex Legends and Titanfall studio Respawn – reportedly a Mandalorian sport – has been cancelled.