Category: Apex Legends News

Apex Legends, the battle royale from Titanfall developers, Respawn Entertainment, looks like it may soon receive portable respawn beacons, according to dataminer Shrugtal.

Apex Legends has been updated to bring the Legendary Hunt into the game. From now through July 2nd, players will be able to earn a number of in-game rewards by participating in limited-time events. The rewards are event-exclusives and include badges, weapon skins, Legend skins and more. Players will also be able to earn XP bonuses during specific times over the coming weeks.

While most of the details about the upcoming Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass are still under wraps, a few details have been teased to prepare players for a special stream event to be held on June 8th. However, we know several things about next season’s battle pass including some big quality of life changes and better rewards in response to the community’s lackluster response to Season 1.

SuperData Research has published its latest report on the top grossing titles for April 2019. For the first time since its debut in February, Apex Legends has dropped out of the top ten on both PC and console. The game brought home $24M in April, “down significantly for the second month in a row”. Earnings are only a quarter of those raked in by Apex Legends in February when it generated $92M.

During yesterday’s EA investors’ call, the company revealed that Apex Legends is its fastest growing new game ever. In addition, EA stated that 30% of the game’s players are new to EA and that it is “working aggressively to bring the game to more players in more markets and platforms around the world”. Those plans include release in China and for mobile devices.

Apex Legends players are primed and ready to roll when Season 1: Wild Frontier launches at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern today. The season will last approximately three months and will bring the first-ever Battle Pass in to the game alongside Octane, a new Legend. Octane will be available for all players.

Unconfirmed rumors are swirling that Electronic Arts paid Tyler “Ninja” Blevins a million dollars to stream Apex Legends and tweet about it to his thirteen million followers within the first 24-hours after the game was announced. Other “influencers” were also paid to stream Apex Legends, including Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, though the details of his deal with EA remain unknown. The standard caveat in this is that neither EA nor Blevins have commented on the rumors.

In a new post on the Apex Legends Reddit, Community Manager Jay Frechette has revealed that over 355K cheaters have been banned since the game opened using “Easy-Anti-Cheat”. While this is impressive in and of itself, Frechette also said that it is only the beginning. “We are working on improvements to combat cheaters,” Frechette wrote. To do so, devs are working “directly with experts, both within and outside EA” as well as prepping a report feature for PC players.

Vince Zampella sent out a new milestone Twitter post this morning when he announced that Apex Legends had hit another milestone. Over 50M unique players worldwide have played the game in under 30 days. To celebrate, the Apex Legends team sent out a one minute plus video. “You pinged, you slid, you got in fights with care packages. Apex Legends just hit 50 million players – check out all the amazing things that have happened in Apex Arena and thank you for being part of the fun!”

The Military & Veteran Gamers group, the largest veteran-affiliated gamer community in the US, will be hosting a charity APEX Legends tournament on Sunday, March 3rd beginning at 2:00 pm Pacific / 5:00 PM Eastern. The event is collecting funds to “send some care packages down range that are full of video game goodies”. Teams can play via XBox One, PC or PlayStation 4 and register for $5. Four teams will take home a share of the $425 prize pool. Viewers will be able to score some door prizes too.