Our latest coverage of Apex Legends.
Respawn Entertainment’s popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends saw a massive surge in its playerbase following the launch of Season 14 last month. Season 14: Hunted featured the addition of a new sniper Legend named Vantage and her echolocating bat companion, Echo. The huge influx of players pushed Apex Legends’ peak player concurrency numbers to an all-time high of 511,676 [...]
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Since Apex Legends kicked off Season 14 earlier this month, high level players have been plagued by a bug that prevented them from receiving rewards when they leveled up. The bug affected players level 500 and up and, according to Respawn, was related to the level cap increase the was introduced with the expansion. Season 14 bumped up the popular [...]
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A new Legend will soon be hunting players down in Apex Legends when the Hunted update makes landfall in EA’s popular battle royale shooter next week. Meet Mara Contreras, a.k.a. Vantage, a survivalist and gifted sniper who’s been shooting since she was a baby, or so she says. “Xiomara “Mara” Contreras was born and raised alone on the wild ice [...]
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For a battle royale game, Apex Legends characters have a remarkable depth to them which makes for a good foundation for a separate story-driven spinoff or even an MMO. Respawn Entertainment is apparently more keen on the former as its now begun hiring developers to work a new single-player first-person shooter adventure set in the Apex Legends universe called the [...]
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It looks like Respawn Entertainment has a whole bunch of new content lined up for Apex Legends if the recent leaks are any indication. Technically, it’s more of a flood rather than a leak and the battle royale shooter’s community soaking up every piece of information like a dry riverbed on a rainy day. The leaks were first revealed on [...]
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After a short delay, Apex Legends Mobile is now live in selected regions for a limited time to help Respawn and Lightspeed test out the game’s matchmaking system. These regions include Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. The regional launch build will allow players to join Battle Royale matches on the classic World’s Edge [...]
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Popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends has kicked off a new season with a new playable Legend, changes to the Olympus map, and the new Control limited-time mode. “Defiance’s newest Legend, Mad Maggie, a cutthroat punk-rock warlord, and the Outlands’ meanest mad-lass must fight to stay alive after being sentenced to death by combat in the Apex Games. Hold on, [...]
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Escape to a massive tropical island as Apex Legends kicks off a new season alongside the release of the battle royale shooter’s latest update. This season, aptly-named Escape, will take place on a brand new map called Storm Point, a tropical island paradise with sandy beaches, rocky towering cliffs, and new points of interest to explore. The new map is [...]
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Respawn Entertainment is gearing up to release the biggest Apex Legends map to date, and it’s going live next week with the Escape update. The new map, called Storm Point, is a massive tropical island made up of sandy beaches and towering cliffs teeming with a plethora of dangerous wildlife, including giant spiders and hyper-aggressive Prowlers. “Wildlife Nests are exciting [...]
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Battle royale shooter Apex Legends kicks off a series of new narrative-style events today called Apex Chronicles which will give players a chance to dive deeper into the stories of each of the game’s characters through gameplay challenges and experiences. The Chronicles event starts with Bloodhound’s story and the quest “Old Ways, New Dawn.” To start the quest, choose Bloodhound [...]
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