Mon, Feb 25, 2013 | 23:04 GMT

Respawn Entertainment headed to E3 2013

Respawn Entertainment has confirmed it will be in attendance at E3 2013, presumably to show off its first game.

“I’ve gotten a ‘few’ questions about E3 Expo plans this year. Yes, we will finally be at E3,” Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella said on Twitter.

“I have no intention of showing up empty handed. I can’t say anything else right now,” he added.

Respawn was founded by Zampella and long-time colleague Jason West after the two left Infinity Ward, the Activision-owned Call of Duty developer they founded and builty up.

Respawn has a publishing contract with EA, and has attracted a significant number of former Infinity Ward staffers.

Famously, West and Zampella were accused of fraternising with the enemy (EA) and were forcibly ejected from Infinity Ward; the resulting lawsuit took years to settle.

Respawn has dropped only the vaguest hints of what its first project might be – although presumably it’s a shooter, and probably a multi-platform release on current and next-gen systems. Its release date is unknown.

E3 2013 takes places from June 11 through 13 in Los Angeles.

15 comments

Erthazus
25/02/13, 10:12 pm

Call Of duty 2.0?

Erthatwat
25/02/13, 10:16 pm

likely run on last-gen engine dat duznt take full use of ma i9 dodecacore PC running 20 GTX790s all SLI’d to the max

YoungZer0
25/02/13, 10:18 pm

@2: Very believable.

Maxey
25/02/13, 10:19 pm

Incumbency of Service, starring Lt. Rodriguez and a British badass called Cpt. Valour.

Edo
25/02/13, 10:21 pm

About f**king time .

YoungZer0
25/02/13, 10:24 pm

I wonder if they are going to do a Bungie and tell us how revolutionary and gamechanging the game is that they can’t show us now.

Max Payne
25/02/13, 10:24 pm

it will blow away both Halo and Destiny that’s for sure.

Sanwiches
25/02/13, 10:29 pm

@Maxey hahahah! though I’m not against another version of Captain Price

Erthazus
25/02/13, 10:43 pm

I actually want really cool Sci-fi shooter. They are with EA and they can do really well this time with good tech.

#10

DSB
25/02/13, 10:56 pm

It’s gonna be one Origin exclusive that I’ll be very, very sad not to get.

#11

Talkar
25/02/13, 11:33 pm

I somewhat hope it will be a Blackberry exclusive card game. Just for the pure WTF?! moment, followed by the nerd rage. It will be glorious ^^
Seriously though, i’m expecting another generic FPS, which might be great. BLOPS 2 was a generic FPS and i thought that was pretty decent. Obviously not as good as DOOM or QUAKE, but then again, what is?