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Here are the abilities and release date of Apex Legends’ Seer
Fariha Bhatti
Apex Legends Season 10 is here and it’s bringing tons of changes to the game, including tweaks to the World’s Edge and a brand new legend. Respawn dropped plenty of hints about the new character “made of moths,” who’ll play a support role for frontline legends. However, teasers granted a sneak peek at the legend who looks to be a potentially viable scout. This new Season of @PlayApex is a …
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shroud ranks battle royale games, says Apex legends is best
Fariha Bhatti
Michael “shroud” Grzesiek is all about first-person shooters and he’s spent ample time of his gaming career playing battle royales like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The streamer recently revealed his top picks among the games at the forefront of the genre. Popular Twitch streamer shroud is known for his insane skills in shooter games and the wisdom he imparts to his fans when it comes to gameplay and mechanics. During a recent …
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Apex Legends reveals new legend in Metamorphosis short
Olivia Richman
Apex Legends dropped a new Stories From the Outlands short that gave a sneak peek at the next legend to drop into the battle royale. The story, “Metamorphosis,” is an origin story that shows new legend Seer being born. He was a “cursed child,” said the narrator, with eyes that “draw us all to the flame.” “Refuse the child’s gaze or be undone. One glance will reduce a mountain to …
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Destiny 2, Apex Legends, and PUBG may not work on Steam Deck
Steven Rondina
People around the world are smitten with the Steam Deck but the platform may not be as perfect as fans are hoping. According to a number of reports including one from PC Gamer, anti-cheat software that works alongside Valve’s VAC system might be incompatible with the SteamOS that the Steam Deck will run on. This is worrisome as a number of the most popular games on Steam use additional anti-cheat …
Apex Legends tease hint at changes coming to the World’s Edge
Fariha Bhatti
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Apex Legends Season 10 is right around the corner and foreshocks of future events can already be observed throughout World’s Edge. Season 9, known as Legacy was released in May, and it brought tons of stuff to dig through. The end of the season is now approaching, with teasers hinting at a seismic event that will potentially change the World’s Edge. Memo from Bilal:”Whole World’s shaking. Finally got Hammond to …
Respawn Entertainment confirms changes to Crypto, EVA-8 nerfs
Fariha Bhatti
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Respawn Entertainment has some big news for Apex Legends players. The perpetually underpowered Crypto has always been useful in certain team settings, but generally hasn’t been as powerful as other legends. That might finally be changing, though. In the latest episode of Apex Uncut podcast live balance designer at Respawn Entertainment, John Larson has revealed that some massive changes in the pipeline. Crypto isn’t a flawed legend who lacks …
Ranked Arenas will launch with Apex Legends Season 10
Olivia Richman
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Apex Legends developers have finally confirmed a ranked mode for Arenas. When Arenas launched in Apex Legends, fans of the battle royale immediately wondered if Arenas would become a better mode for competitive players. Some even debated if it would become the new Apex Legends esports format. But there was a problem: in the fact that there’s no ranked Arenas mode. That’s about to change. Apex Legends Season 10 will …
Hackers take down Apex Legends servers over cheating problems
Olivia Richman
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In an attempt to “save Titanfall,” hackers decided to hack Apex Legends on Sunday. Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play battle royale has been plagued by hackers and DDoS attacks as of late. A new wave of DDoS attacks struck in May, which was acknowledged by Respawn. The cheating has been so bad recently that a pro player even got #SaveApexRanked to trend in late June. Despite a response from developers, players …
Apex Legends devs address game crashes and matchmaking issues
Olivia Richman
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Apex Legends players were focused on hackers for much of the past few days. But apparently that’s not the only issue in developer Respawn Entertainment’s popular battle royale right now. After the game’s Genesis update, fans of the game have realized a few things were going horribly wrong. Players using the “Frag Out” banner with Bloodhound and Rampart noticed that the game would crash. Developers acknowledged this bug and advised …
Apex Legends pro gets #SaveApexRanked trending worldwide
Olivia Richman
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Apex Legends professional player Chris “sweetdreams” called on developer Respawn Entertainment to take action against cheating that has harmed the game’s competitive community. The NRG pro shared a TwitLonger last night, exclaiming “#SaveApexRanked before it’s too late.” The TwitLonger explained that it’s been about nine months of excessive cheating, disrupting the integrity of the competitive ladder. But it hasn’t only been top players who are impacted by the cheating. sweetdreams …
Mirage Voyage Ship is set to be removed from Apex Legends
Olivia Richman
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Mirage Voyage is a popular point of interest in Apex Legend’s current map, but developers recently announced that it will be removed from the battle royale for the foreseeable future. Apex Legends lead game designer Daniel Klein discussed the major change in the Apex Legends subreddit. He explained that it may not even be on the map ever again. “Oh the Voyage is CRASHED crashed,” said the developer. “I think …
Apex Legends devs may add a fan’s Arenas idea to the game
Olivia Richman
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Apex Legends players have been enjoying the new permanent game mode Arenas, but some fans think there are things Respawn Entertainment could improve to make the mode more balanced. Season 9 brought Arenas to Apex Legends, giving players a competitive mode that has teams of three compete to be the last team standing over a series of rounds. The mode is quite different from the battle royale, creating new metas …
Apex Legends removes Arenas abandon penalties due to bugs
Olivia Richman
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Respawn Entertainment recently updated Apex Legends with a leaving penalty for the game’s new Arenas mode. When games are full, players will get penalized for leaving matches. Players in a party with the match leaver will also face consequences similar to the penalty in Apex Legend’s battle royale ranked games. While this initially seemed like a positive quality of life change for the game, Apex Legends players had a variety …
Apex Legends Global Series Championship prize may hit $3 million
Olivia Richman
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The Apex Legends Global Series Championship is potentially getting a much larger prize pool. The event’s $1 million prize pool may be boosted up to $3 million. The tournament is set to begin on May 22, but Respawn Entertainment had some last-minute changes to announce. In a tweet, the official Apex Legends account informed fans that the prize pool was now able to reach a whopping $3 million through in-game …
EA addresses Apex Legends bug that bans innocent players
Olivia Richman
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EA has swiftly addressed an Apex Legends issue that left countless innocent players banned from the game, seemingly at random. Apex Legends’ moderation team created a thread on Reddit to organize the countless complaints from fans that were getting suddenly banned from the popular battle royale. Hundreds of players shared their story on the thread, with some saying they were banned mid-game while others were met with the alert after …
How many people are playing Apex Legends in 2021?
Olivia Richman
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Apex Legends is one of a few popular battle royales in the competitive gaming scene, but it’s common to see gamers debating if it really deserves a spot with other similar games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. While some people question the success of Apex Legends, the player count doesn’t lie. Apex Legends is relatively new to the scene. It was suddenly launched in 2019 and immediately skyrocketed up to …
Apex Legends blew up the hero shooter genre and shook up battle royales in a permanent way; but where is the game headed at this point?
Few games have had as explosive a launch as Apex Legends. The game was effectively shadow-dropped and instantly became one of the biggest titles in its genre. Though it didn’t “kill” Fortnite as some predicted, and didn’t necessarily even slow down its growth, it did carve out a niche of its own.
But where did Apex go from there? And where is the game headed at this point? Here’s everything there is to know about Apex Legends’ history and future.
What is Apex Legends?
Apex Legends is a hero shooter developed by Respawn Entertainment, the creators of the Titanfall series.
The game launched in 2019 with a surprising shadow drop. At the time, Fortnite was enjoying incredible mainstream visibility both online and even across mainstream media. Late-night TV shows, morning news programs, and radio DJs around the world were discussing this incredibly popular video game that teenagers were obsessing over.
It’s no surprise that an enormous publisher like EA Games would make a push to imitate its success. It did so in a surprising way, however.
The game launched on February 4, 2019, with no marketing beforehand. Instead, EA Games worked directly with some of the biggest Fortnite-focused streamers at the time, including Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. These Fortnite streamers were reportedly paid millions of dollars to showcase the competition, which proved to be a major success.
Official statements claimed that Apex Legends garnered millions of unique players within a day of its launch, and 25 million within its first week. In 2022, EA stated that the game had surpassed $2 billion in revenue throughout its lifespan.
Apex Legends sets itself apart with fast movement and action
Apex Legends combines gameplay elements from both the battle royale and hero shooter genres. The title is a first-person shooter where players are typically placed into a team of three. Teams air drop into a level that shrinks as the game progresses, and need to procure weapons and armor on site.
While this sounds very similar to Fortnite and PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends set itself apart by folding in hero shooter-style characters. Each playable character has a handful of abilities that can be used to help allies or harm enemies. These abilities varied wildly, ranging from tracking enemies’ footsteps to healing allies to launching one’s entire team into the sky to reposition.
Even in comparison to Fortnite, this made for a fast-paced gameplay experience. This was complemented by other mechanics.
Movement in Apex Legends was set apart by the ability to quickly scale obstacles, crouch, and slide down hills and stairs. This makes firefights quick and frantic.
Not only that, but the experience of allies being downed was significantly more dynamic. Downed players weren’t just forced to crawl; they had a shield they could use defensively or to help allies on offense. When a player is killed, they can be revived if allies interact with their body quickly enough and then interact with a respawn beacon. This mechanic wasn’t present in competing battle royales, and rewarded players for sticking around until the end of a game.
All this made for a highly engaging experience that maintained a strong place in the battle royale space.
Apex Legends popularity in flux after controversies
Though Apex Legends enjoyed an explosive launch and has generated billions of dollars in revenue, the game’s popularity has waned over time. EA Games doesn’t offer exact player count figures, nor do PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo. However, tracking services for Steam suggest that Apex Legends suffered a marked decline in its player count across 2023 and 2024.
The game hit an all-time peak on Steam in February 2023 with an average player count of 257,416 throughout the month, and a peak of 624,473, per Steam Charts. However, those numbers steeply declined in 2023, with those losses continuing into 2024 and 2025.
The exact reason is unclear, though the game has endured multiple major controversies.
Fans have long complained about the game’s loot box system, which forces completionists to spend a great deal of cash in order to acquire all the game’s premium skins. Complaints regarding hacking also came to a head publicly in 2024 when a hacker commandeered an Apex Legends esports event by injecting into competitors’ PCs.
Respawn also overhauled how the game’s battle pass system works, breaking up seasons into multiple parts while billing players for each part.
The game’s long-term future as one of the world’s most popular competitive games may be uncertain, but despite some questions, the game still remains one of the most popular live-service games in the world.
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