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Friday8th Mar 2024
News Apex Legends Aims To Expand Beyond 'Traditional Battle Royale Universe' In 2024
Three phases can lead to "incredible growth"
Apex Legends is now in its fifth year and while other games would be slowing down at this point, EA and Respawn are hoping to grow the live service IP "beyond the traditional battle royale universe" in 2024. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley conference recently, EA CEO Andrew Wilson believes this particular...
Wednesday14th Feb 2024
News Xbox Adds New Dynamic Background To Celebrate 5th Anniversary Of Apex Legends
A Legendary addition
Popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends has been out for five years now, and the team has added a new Xbox Series X|S dynamic background to celebrate the game's milestone anniversary. Now available on current-gen Xbox consoles, the new Apex Legends dynamic background is based around the game's latest official artwork -...
Tuesday6th Feb 2024
News Apex Legends On Xbox Series X|S Getting 120FPS Performance Mode
The highly requested update arrives next week
The free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends is getting its fifth-anniversary seasonal update 'Breakout' next week, and as part of this, it's receiving a performance mode on current generation consoles including Xbox Series X|S. Players can look forward to 120 FPS gameplay with this new video settings...
Friday27th Oct 2023
News Apex Legends Adding Cross-Progression At The End Of October
A welcome update
Respawn Entertainment has shared some welcome news with the community of Apex Legends. The free-to-play battle royale will finally be getting cross-platform progression on 31st October. This update will arrive alongside Season 19 and the newest Legend Conduit. This cross-progression update will include account merging - with all...
Friday17th Feb 2023
News Ex-Apex Legends Director Forms New Studio Wildlight Entertainment
Loaded with FPS developer talent
A new game studio called Wildlight Entertainment has been formed. While the name may not immediately grab your attention, some of the people at the studio might! It's led by former Apex Legends game director, Chad Grenier - also known for his work on the Titanfall series and his past development history with Call of...
Wednesday8th Feb 2023
News Apex Legends Becomes Less 'Battle Royale' With The Introduction Of Traditional Team Deathmatch
Remember Attrition
Apex Legends Season 16 is almost here, and normally we wouldn't be that fussed if it was a standard battle royale-filled season of content to be honest. However, developer Respawn is going back to its Titanfall roots with the addition of a traditional team deathmatch mode. Yep, Apex sounds like it's becoming a broader...
Thursday2nd Feb 2023
News 'Titanfall 3' Hopes Dashed As EA Reportedly Cancels Unannounced Respawn Project
Triple dashed
'Titanfall 3' has been on our hypothetical wishlist for years at this point - in fact, probably since right after we wrapped up Titanfall 2's fantastic single-player campaign way back in 2016. EA doesn't seem to have gotten the memo though, at least according to a new Bloomberg report about an internal cancellation. Journalist Jason...
Thursday14th Jul 2022
News Apex Legends Patch Resolves 'Various Issues' With Xbox Headsets
Have a listen
Apex Legends is one of the top battle royale games right now, but it admittedly has been experiencing some issues on the Xbox platform. Fortunately, these problems have now seemingly been addressed. According to an official game update (via social media) - Respawn Entertainment has pushed out a patch to "improve" the various issues...
Monday11th Jul 2022
News Respawn Begins Work On 'Single-Player Adventure' In The Apex Legends Universe
Is it Titanfall 3?!
Multiple job listings have surfaced over the weekend, relating to a new game in the works at Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment. There are a whole load of positions available within the team, but a selection of them relate to a new "single-player adventure" currently named 'Apex Universe FPS Incubation'. Of course, that...
Tuesday29th Mar 2022
News Apex Legends Free Xbox Series X|S Upgrade Is Now Live
4K, 60 frames, you name it
Apex Legends' stealth launch was over three years ago now, believe it or not. Since then, a wee pair of consoles called Xbox Series X|S have launched, and we've been waiting for Respawn's battle royale to take advantage of their features for a while. The time has now arrived! Alongside the Apex Legends Warriors Collection...
Friday4th Feb 2022
News Xbox Series X|S Version Of Apex Legends Could Be Coming Real Soon
Native next-gen goodness
Apex Legends has been playable on Xbox Series X|S via backward compatibility since the systems launched. However, developer Respawn has repeatedly expressed its intention to create a proper next-gen port. Well, it seems like that port grows ever closer. In a recent preview event for Apex's 'Defiance' update, the developer...
Wednesday3rd Nov 2021
News The Latest Apex Legends Update Is An Absolutely Ridiculous Size On Xbox
"We're basically re-downloading the whole game"
If you're a keen player of Apex Legends then you might have noticed that an absolutely huge update for the game went live yesterday to coincide with the release of Apex Legends: Escape, and it's particularly bad on Xbox. The download size has been reported as upwards of 70GB on Xbox consoles (which is...
Monday5th Jul 2021
News Apex Legends Players Hack The Game With 'Save Titanfall' Message
Hackers hacked to complain about hackers
Apex Legends was hit with a strange issue over the weekend - hackers were displaying messages in an attempt to "Save Titanfall". Why? Well, Titanfall has become notorious on PC for being full of hackers, so now, the community has taken it into their own hands to spread the message. Players logging in were...
Tuesday29th Dec 2020
News Respawn Entertainment Is Recruiting For A New IP
Apex Legends, Star Wars and...?
Respawn Entertainment - best-known in recent times for Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - appears to have a new IP in development. Although EA has already hinted at a sequel to Fallen Order, this seems to be for something completely different. According to a
Friday2nd Oct 2020
News Apex Legends Cross-Play Beta Launching Next Week On October 6th
Ready up, Xbox players
Respawn Entertainment, the creator of EA's battle royale game Apex Legends, has announced it will be launching the cross-play beta next week. Game director Chad Grenier made this announcement over on the official EA blog. Since the launch of Apex Legends, cross-play has been one of the most requested features from our...
Friday19th Jun 2020
News Apex Legends Is Getting Cross-Play Across All Platforms This Fall
Even Nintendo Switch!
EA and Respawn have just announced (via EA Play Live 2020) that Apex Legends on Xbox One is getting cross-play support with all platforms including PC, PS4 and even Nintendo Switch later this fall. It was also revealed that a new limited-time event for the game called Lost Treasures is arriving next week on June 23, which will...
Wednesday29th Apr 2020
News It Looks Like Apex Legends Is Getting An Xbox Series X Port
Mentioned in new job listing
The popular free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends looks like it'll be getting an Xbox Series X port according to a new job listing. The role, advertised by developer Respawn Entertainment via the EA Careers site, says the company is looking to "push next-gen platforms and the PC to their limits" on the game (thanks...
Wednesday8th Apr 2020
News Respawn Says Solos In Apex Legends "Negatively Impacted The Game"
But Duos is now live
The new patch notes for Apex Legends' Old Way Event are live, and in a blog on the EA website, it's been noted that Solos hasn't been added to the game for a selection of reasons. Primarily, Respawn says the limited-time mode "negatively impacted the game" when added last year. The statement indicates that Solos had a negative...
