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First teaser for Titanfall 2 promises a PC, PS4, Xbox One launch and a June 12 reveal
EA and Respawn Entertainment officially announced Titanfall 2 today, and confirmed the game is indeed in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Unfortunately, this announcement is a bit short on details, though EA did unveil a pretty great teaser trailer for the game. Just 44 seconds long, the clip shows an escape pod being approached by a Titan with a big honking sword. I thought the “mech with a sword” scenes from Avatar were pretty silly, but I have a feeling that EA and Respawn can make it work.
We’ll learn more about Titanfall 2 during a “Worldwide Reveal” presentation that EA will host on June 12, as part of their Pre-E3 EA Play festivities.
TitanFall 2 is very likely getting “a dedicated single-player campaign”
TitanFall 2 still hasn’t received its official unveiling yet, but Lead Writer Jesse Stern shared some more details about the game with Forbes this past weekend.
First, Stern (or someone connected to Respawn) told Forbes that TitanFall 2 will have “a dedicated single-player campaign” (the original TitanFall was multiplayer-only) and then he delved a bit deeper into the story of “global colonial warfare” that Respawn wants to tell:
“So we are doing our best to deliver a vision of grand global colonial warfare retelling the story of the American Revolution and the American Civil War in space. We imagined the next generation of immigrants moving out to the new frontier of an inhabitable planet. Rather than taking a traditional sci-fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction, demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war.”
In addition to his work on the game, Stern also admitted he’s working with Lionsgate to turn the TitanFall franchise into a television series. “We are trying to find a way to tell a story in the worlds we want to be in and produce in the TV model,” Respawn’s CEO, Vince Zampella, added. Any show with skyscraper-sized mechs duking it out on the battlefield will be very expensive to produce, so it might be a while before we see it.
But if all goes well, EA expects to release TitanFall 2 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One later this year or sometime in early 2017.
TitanFall 2 gets a Late 2016/Early 2017 release date; New Battlefield, Mass Effect Andromeda still on track for 2016
Even though it has yet to be officially announced, EA is confident that TitanFall 2 will be released during the late 2016/early 2017 period. CEO Andrew Wilson delivered the good news during the company’s quarterly financial call yesterday, while also ticking off tentative release dates for the next Battlefield game (Fall 2016) and Mass Effect: Andromeda (late 2016/early 2017):
An all-new Battlefield game from DICE will arrive in time for the holidays, we’re excited to have a new TitanFall experience coming from our friends at Respawn and of course, Mass Effect: Andromeda from the team at BioWare will launch later in the fiscal year.
Wilson would go on to say that the next TitanFall is shaping up nicely, and that he can’t wait to talk about it “in the months ahead”:
Again, it’s a little early to start talking about the details of TitanFall in this juncture, and that wasn’t the purpose of raising it. What I would say, having seen the game, is it’s looking fantastic. Our relationship with Respawn is extremely strong; we have great faith in that entire team to build a spectacular game and are really looking forward to sharing more details in the months ahead.
While it’s possible we might learn more about all three of these titles this Spring, we’ll likely have to wait until this year’s E3 Expo. Though EA recently said they’re skipping this year’s E3 Expo and will instead hold their own event, EA Play 2016, in the days just before the convention.
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TitanFall 2 will be released sometime after Spring 2016
Even though it hasn’t been officially announced yet, EA executives just can’t help themselves when it comes to questions about TitanFall 2. During the Q&A portion of their quarterly financial presentation yesterday, Executive Vice President Blake Jorgensen confirmed the game will not be released this year. Instead, it looks like the game won’t be released until EA’s 2017 fiscal year, which begins on April 1, 2016.
Here’s what Jorgensen had to say about TitanFall 2: “In terms of TitanFall [2], you should assume that that’s not in fiscal 2016. It’s more likely in fiscal 2017. And a title of that size, we want to be pretty clear as to when it’s falling in the title slate, and so your assumption should be 2017.”
Even without an official announcement, TitanFall 2 has been a popular topic of conversation for EA executives and developers from Respawn Entertainment. Respawn’s CEO, Vince Zampella, confirmed the game is in development back in March.
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Respawn CEO confirms TitanFall 2 is in development
Even though TitanFall 2 remains officially unannounced, executives from Electronic Arts love talking about it. Last May, the publisher revealed that it had signed a contract with Respawn Entertainment for a TitanFall sequel. And just last month, the company’s CEO all but confirmed the game during a technology conference. But it sounds like Respawn CEO Vince Zampella has had enough of all this pussyfooting around.
Speaking to IGN, Zampella ripped off the band-aid and officially announced TitanFall 2. Not only that, he also confirmed that it is coming to “multiple platforms” so a PS4 version is definitely in the cards:
“I guess EA announced a sequel, so I could play coy and pretend I don’t know anything about it, or… yeah. So we’re working on a sequel. No official name yet, but we’re working on that. That’s the main focus but we’re starting up a second team and doing some smaller stuff too. Small, exploratory, taking it slow! It’ll be multiplatform.”
Zampella wasn’t ready to talk specifics about TitanFall 2 yet, but he did tell IGN that he admires Turtle Rock’s expansion plan for Evolve. Perhaps we’ll see a similar system (new characters will cost money, but maps will be free) implemented in TitanFall 2. And speaking of DLC expansions, to say thanks for all the support they’ve received, Respawn has made all of TitanFall’s DLC free to download. Zampella penned a short letter thanking fans that you can read at TitanFall’s official website.
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EA strongly hints (again) that TitanFall 2 is coming to the PS4 too
The recognized party line of both EA Games and Respawn Entertainment is that TitanFall 2 remains officially unannounced. However, executives from both companies love to talk about it. That was definitely the case during yesterday’s presentation by EA CFO Blake Jorgensen at the Stifel Technology, Internet & Media Conference.
During the course of his speech, Jorgensen said that EA will “probably” publish another TitanFall game and that it’ll “probably” appear on multiple consoles:
“Last year [TitanFall] was on the Xbox only; in the future, we haven’t yet announced, but we’ll probably have another TitanFall game. It will probably be a bigger footprint than just a single platform. I think that’s a huge positive for us.”
Though Jorgensen qualified it by saying “probably” several times, EA already revealed to investors back in May that they struck a deal with Respawn to create “new Titanfall experiences.” So TitanFall 2 is definitely coming and I think it’s almost a certainty at this point that it’ll be available for the PS4 in addition to the Xbox One (and probably the PC).
[Source: GameSpot]
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Respawn is working on a non-TitanFall game… and probably more TitanFall
Respawn Entertainment’s CEO, Vince Zampella, recently sat down with Game Informer to talk about the company’s rather eventful year and their presently percolating future.
First things first, Zampella confirmed that the company doesn’t have any additional DLC planned for TitanFall now that the Season Pass has run its course. However, EA previously announced that they had contracted with Respawn for “new TitanFall experiences,” so perhaps the developer is already hard at work on TitanFall 2? Zampella alluded to that in the interview by saying, “Respawn Entertainment does want to make more Titanfall.” He also reaffirmed that “future [TitanFall] projects will not necessarily be exclusive” to the Xbox and PC.
Finally, Zampella also revealed that Respawn is now home to a second team, which is working on a “non-TitanFall project.” This team is headed up by the recently hired Stig Asmusson, who you might remember as the Creative Director behind God of War III.
But whatever Respawn has in the hopper, a public debut will have to wait. Zampella closed the interview by saying, “Next year will be a little quiet. We’ll be heads down, back to work.”
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Rumor: TitanFall 2 is definitely coming to PS4
About a month ago, CEO Andrew Wilson told investors that EA had reached a deal with Respawn Entertainment to bring a “new Titanfall experiences to players worldwide.” At the time, we had no idea if Wilson was talking about additional DLC expansions or a sequel, but a new rumor is pointing towards a sequel… with a twist.
According to The Wall Street Journal, pre-production on TitanFall 2 has already begun and, surprise surprise, it’s in the works for the Xbox One and PS4. The Journal cited “a person close to the development effort” as their source, though EA refused to comment. Perhaps that’s because the publisher is planning a TitanFall 2 announcement for their E3 Press Conference, which is scheduled to begin in a few hours.
This scenario is probably unlikely, but Respawn has said all along that TitanFall became an Xbox-exclusive solely because it would have been too difficult to put it on both new-generation consoles at the same time. And in the three months since it’s release, the game has gone on to sell more than a million copies, so a PS4 sequel is almost a guarantee at this point.
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