Vince Zampella is CEO and cofounder of Respawn Entertainment, maker of Apex Legends.
Vince Zampella is CEO and cofounder of Respawn Entertainment, maker of Apex Legends.
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Respawn’s Vince Zampella interview — Why you won’t see Titans in Apex Legends

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Vince Zampella, the CEO of Respawn Entertainment, likes to say that his teams “chase the fun.” And by doing that, the studio was able to come up with a surprise, Apex Legends, a new battle royale shooter game set in the Titanfall universe. The free-to-play game debuts today on Electronic Arts‘ Origin platform.

I played Respawn’s Apex Legends for a few hours last week, and then I interviewed Zampella, cofounder of the studio that made the Titanfall series, about how the game together. I asked him, for instance, about why the team decided to nix the Titans, or giant mechs, in this game, even though that’s the major feature of previous Titanfall releases.

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Dean Takahashi

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.