Respawn opens new studio in Vancouver to focus on Apex Legends

Respawn is expanding its reach by opening up a new studio in Vancouver, Canada to focus entirely on Apex Legends. This announcement was confirmed past Respawn COO Dusty Welch to GamesIndustry.biz and coincides with the studio'due south 10th anniversary.

The team over at Respawn Vancouver, conveniently located well-nigh EA's Vancouver campus, will be led by Head of Operations Henry Lee and Squad Managing director Steven Ferreira. Lee spoke about how excited he was for the motion.

When you expect at Vancouver, information technology'southward i of our [EA'southward] biggest studio locations. And Vancouver is total of talented people in the games industry, and so there was a natural fit with Steven coming on lath with his core team and actually establishing that foundation. At present we're but adding the missing pieces to information technology.

This is a great opportunity, not simply for the Vancouver studio to bring some new artistic challenges to people already there, only also to the local industry in terms of being office of the Apex Legends roadmap. So nosotros're very excited nearly bringing this to Vancouver and hopefully greater Canada every bit well, because nosotros can tap into much more of a talent base broadly.

Its Vancouver office will be Respawn's 2d location in improver to its studio in California, led by Vince Zampella, who also became the head of DICE LA back at the beginning of the year. With some other studio to work on Apex Legends on take the pressure off of the California office, it should permit them to dedicate more resources to other projects.

The Vancouver-based studio actually started upwardly in 2022, and Respawn has been hiring for information technology internally for several months. The company is at present looking to hire externally in the hopes of reaching effectually 80 employees.

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