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You'll Be Able to Play 'Titanfall' on Your iPhone Next Year

Nexon and Respawn announce Titanfall mobile games announced while you wait for Titanfall 2.
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Titanfall, one of 2014's biggest multiplayer first-person shooters, is coming to mobile devices, the game's developer Respawn Entertainment announced on Thursday.

Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment's co-founder who previously worked on the Call of Duty games, didn't share any specifics about what the games will look like on mobile devices, but formed a new studio to develop them called Particle City. That studio will "create all-new standalone games with original gameplay experiences that expand the Titanfall universe to players everywhere," Zampella said in a press release.

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The Titanfall mobile games will be published by the Korean free-to-play and online company Nexon, which previously partnered with Respawn and Titanfall publisher Electronic Arts to bring a free-to-play version of the game to Asia.

Nexon does this a lot. Conventional wisdom is that, in countries like China, where players have less disposable income, it's more profitable to create free-to-play versions of games and charge players small amounts for in-game items than just release them for $60. Nexon also operates free-to-play versions of Call of Duty and Counter-Strike in Asia, as well as a few of its own games.

As part of the deal, Nexon invested an undisclosed sum in Particle City.

It'll be interesting to see how the studio translates Titanfall for mobile devices. Titanfall is as fast and twitchy as shooters come, which isn't the kind of game you want to play on a touchscreen, so the mobile Titanfall games will likely be very different.

The first Titanfall mobile game is expected to launch on iOS and Android in 2016, perhaps in time to build the hype for Titanfall 2, which Respawn and Electronic Arts confirmed is in development earlier this year.