First unveiled over the weekend by YouTuber TheQuartering , and then further confirmed by multiple media outlets and our own sources, Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale shooter described as a Titanfall spinoff of sorts, sans the actual Titans. Details on gameplay features are not yet official, but the full reveal comes tomorrow morning, Monday, February 4th at 8am PST on Twitch according to the newly launched Apex Legends Beginner Guide|Https://Apexarenaelite.Com/ Legends Twitter accou
Apex Legends _ is the latest battle royale sensation, breaking 25 million registered players during its first week available. Developer Respawn Entertainment suddenly launched the game last Monday, February 4, and positive buzz has seen _Apex Legends become one of the most talked about titles in recent memory, with a its playerbase swelling at an incredible r
This will probably surprise people, especially as Caustic is an unlockable character. I expected more from him, and quite frankly, he let me down. He just isn’t very useful, especially when compared to the other lege
As we pointed out in light of the Apex Legends reveal is that the timing is strange since EA is just two weeks away from releasing their other futuristic online-only action game Anthem , and just a few months away from the Battlefield V battle royale mode, Firestorm. There’s a risk of cannibalization here, but perhaps Firestorm is further off than we thou
Respawn Entertainment, according to Kotaku , was initially working on Titanfall 3 after Titanfall 2 with their dated version of the Source engine after Titanfall 2 but may have converted that to Apex Legends while their other team works on the upcoming Star Wars game Jedi Fallen Order which also debuts in 2019. Speculation is that Respawn would need to develop or upgrade a game engine for Titanfall 3 to keep up with the triple-A shooters and that it could be a long ways
To promote the game, publisher Electronic Arts is going the influencer route, having invited and paid streamers and YouTubers to a secret LA event last week to play the game. Tonight, those attendees all posted sponsored tweets in unison, sharing excitement that they can discuss the game tomorrow after Respawn’s presentation. All of these tweets, paid for by EA, were hashtagged as an #Ad so take that for what you will. This is marketing, not personal opini
Update: The livestream full reveal has been changed to 12pm noon PST / 3pm EST, but throughout the day more leaks have revealed the Apex Legends game map, and additional details characters on characters. Original article followed by new ima
He can provide cover with a cloud, but so can Bangalore. He provides some damage to enemies with a strike, but Bangalore and Gibraltar both provide far more. He can see enemies others cannot, but it’s not a patch on Bloodhound’s tracker abilit
On the other end, there is the likely chance that this was Epic Games doing some non-existant PR damage control. By all means, I’m sure they are increasingly conscious of the rise of Apex Legends — EA has been able to quote daily successes since the game’s unexpected launch. In the first eight hours, the battle royale title had scored over a million individual players . Within 48 hours, that number had jumped to 2.5 million players . Then, by the end of the work week, Apex Legends had managed to reach 10 million players, with a high score of 1 million concurren
Still, it seems unlikely that this is just what developers should expect when they release a title into the most popular genre in gaming today. There’s more at play here than just cashing in on a big market, and Apex Legends is clearly going to be a major player in 2019. What remains to be seen is just how fast it will grow, and how it will deal with the challenges that come with being under greater scrutiny and the weight of expectation as Respawn Entertainment delivers the game’s first content releases in the coming mon
And just like that, a wave of warm feelings and business sportsmanship was ushered in. Vince Zampella, CEO of Apex Legends developer Respawn, Tweeted back at Rein thanking him for the warm words — even offering to buy him drinks the next time they meet
The kerfuffle began last night when a Twitter user reached out to Mark Rein , Vice President of Epic Games (and co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes for NHL fans out there ). The aim of the Twitter user was simple: get a statement from a Fortnite spokesperson about the up-and-coming competitor, Apex Legends from developer Respawn Entertainm
With Apex Legends becoming a major focus for Respawn Entertainment, their future should prove to be interesting. As a result of this project, it’s unlikely that Titanfall 3 will be arriving anytime soon, too. So gamers eager to get their fill of Titanfall lore will have to master the various Legends of the free-to-play Apex Legends as they await a third entry in the critically-acclaimed franch
The information on Fortnite pertains to when it went free-to-play and battle royale as well, so it’s not as though Apex Legends is being given a head start by including the brief period that saw Fortnite remain relatively obscure. Fortnite also launched into PUBG , so the argument that Apex Legends is capitalizing on a market that’s more fertile isn’t a completely sound one. That being said, however, there’s certainly more people invested in the genre than there used to be, so Apex Legends ‘ numbers might be what to expect from great battle royale titles in the future. The game still has a long ways to go when it comes to concurrent players as well, as Apex Legends recently surpassed 2 million – Fortnite hit over 8 million concurrent players late last y
