EA reveals new Apex Legends hero, immediately lays off writer behind him: "It's objectively pretty funny to get a promo email for the character I wrote the day I'm let go"

Apex Legends.

In a stunningly bleak encapsulation of the current state of the video game industry, EA has laid off an Apex Legends writer just 24 hours after revealing the character she had been writing for over a year.

A Bloomberg report surfaced on Tuesday that claimed EA had laid off between 300 and 400 workers, and Apex Legends studio Respawn soon confirmed that it had been impacted by the downsizing.