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EA cancels Titanfall project in wake of company-wide layoffs

The troubling recent trend of mass video game industry layoffs continued this week.

This time, it was Electronic Arts, considered one of the industry’s biggest third-party video game publishers. Per Bloomberg, EA cut more than 300 jobs, with about a third of those affecting Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Titanfall, Apex Legends, and the Star Wars Jedi games.

Respawn’s official X account posted a statement on Monday that the studio had to cancel two “early-stage incubation projects” as part of these cuts.

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Bloomberg’s report indicated that one project was canceled earlier in the year, with the other described as a multiplayer extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe. It’s unclear how far along the game was in development, but according to Bloomberg, it was nowhere close to being released.

While none of us have access to the full economics behind EA, it should be noted that Respawn, in particular, has developed multiple financially successful games for EA. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was a commercial success, and Apex Legends has generated billions in revenue since 2019. Because of that success, EA CEO Andrew Wilson took home $25.6 million last fiscal year.


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With the launch of X Money, Elon Musk gets one step closer to his everything app

Elon Musk has just taken one more step towards turning X into “the everything app.”

On Monday, Musk’s social media platform X announced the launch of a new service on the platform called X Money. 

What is X Money? The new service on X basically provides banking and financial services for paying X Premium and Premium+ subscribers right within the app. X Money includes peer-to-peer payments and money transfers within the X platform, as well as a deposit account. Users will also receive “the X card,” a physical Visa debit card for ATM withdrawals and in-person transactions.

According to the announcement post, X Money users will be able to conduct a variety of everyday transactions directly within X, just as they would with any other bank account. Some core functions of X Money include:

X also says that users can get paid up to two days early with direct deposit.

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Elon Musk’s gets one step closer to his “everything app” with the launch of X Money.
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Premium+ subscribers on X are immediately eligible for 6% APY, whereas X Premium subscribers can also reach that rate after meeting Qualifying Direct Deposit requirements. 

X Money’s Visa Debit Card, which the service is calling the X Card, will provide 3% cash back on eligible purchases and no-fee cash withdrawals at any ATM worldwide. X Card supports digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay as well.

Deposit accounts are held with X Money partner Cross River Bank, Member FDIC and insured up to $250,000.

Musk has long planned to launch an X Money-type service within the X app. The owner of the social media platform certainly has experience in the industry. Before X was a social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk ran a payment services company called X that later merged with PayPal in the early dot-com era. Musk has long had a goal of creating a true “everything app,” according to biographers and other sources.

Musk previously claimed that it would “blow his mind” if his social media company didn’t launch financial services within X by the end of 2024. X Money went through an initial test phase earlier this year and is now rolling out to a subset of its user base in the U.S. with plans to further expand in the near future.


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T-Mobile is down. Social media users are not taking it well.

In case you haven’t heard, T-Mobile’s mobile network appeared to go down for a lot of users on Monday afternoon.

Users in the United States reported a widespread outage, with mobile service in particular being disrupted, and some users reported they were stuck in “SOS mode,” which can happen if service is interrupted. As usual, customers took to social media apps like X and Reddit to vent their frustrations, sometimes directly at T-Mobile itself.

On X, one user reported being stranded and unable to order a Lyft home (though, apparently, still able to post to X), while another said they were seeing a long line at their local T-Mobile store. Over on Reddit, a post about the outage has already collected more than 5,500 comments, with users trading rumors about the possible cause and potential fixes.

As a reminder: The person running a brand’s social media help line typically can’t fix the outage.

As of this writing, “T-Mobile” was trending on X, and search terms such as “Is t mobile down” and “t mobile outage” were trending on Google Search.

Mashable reached out to T-Mobile with questions about the outage, which the brand still hasn’t acknowledged. We’ll update this story if we receive more information.

This is a developing story…


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