Updated: Respawn's new Ogre class Titan can rip others to shreds in Titanfall

Respawn Entertainment showed off more goods from its highly anticipated first-person shooter, Titanfall, coming to Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. The startup showed off a video that displayed a new Titan, dubbed the Ogre, a mech that is much different from the others we’ve seen in previous footage of the game.

Titanfall's Ogre can rip a rival to shreds
Titanfall’s Ogre can rip a rival to shreds.

The announcement came during the Spike TV VGX awards. Joel McHale and Geoff Keighley hosted the show. The title is coming out March 11, but a beta test might happen before that, said Vince Zampella, co-founder of Respawn and one of the veterans who made the Call of Duty series into a blockbuster shooter property.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.