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Respawn raises mental health awareness with powerful video
Apex Legends developer, Respawn Entertainment, has released a moving video to raise awareness of mental health issues and remind players to talk to their friends and loved ones.In the five-minute video posted on Twitter, the Respawn Entertainment team talks openly about their own mental health battles as well as the struggles that their loved ones have faced. Talking candidly, Chin Xiang Chong, lead game designer of Apex Legends explained how he had “certainly thought of suicide myself” in the past, and Fred Gill, head of technology discussed how his daughter has also struggled with mental health problems.For too long, suicide has been a misunderstood consequence of prolonged mental illness and despair.
