Epic Games CEO says Apex Legends hasn’t made a dent in Fortnite

In the wake of Apex Legends, which has briskly grown to 50 million players, many have wondered whether Fortnite has felt the impact. But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told GamesBeat that Apex hasn’t really made a dent. Without being asked about Apex Legends, Sweeney said “an Apex Legends worth” of players have come over […]

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‘Apex Legends’ hits an impressive 10 million players

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Just three days after it launched, Apex Legends has already hit 10 million players, with a peak concurrent player count of more than 1 million, developer Respawn Entertainment announced Thursday.

The battle royale game launched on Monday at the same time as it was revealed by Respawn Entertainment, the developers behind Titanfall. The game is free to play and is available on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, which surely helped it reach a high number of players in such a short time — why not try a free game?

Apex Legends was inspired by other wildly popular battle royale games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds where players drop down onto an island where the playable area gets smaller and smaller as people fight to be the last survivors. Read more…

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‘Apex Legends’ reinvents the wheel on team play in first-person shooters

First-person shooters have transformed before, and it’s often the smallest and most seemingly no-brainer tweaks that do it.
In the late ’90s, games like Descent and Duke Nukem 3D unlocked Y-axis aiming while Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were still left-an…

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Titanfall takes aim on ‘Fortnite’ with ‘Apex Legends,’ a free-to-play battle royale game

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The rumors were true: Titanfall is coming back in 2019 not as a numbered sequel, but as a total spin-off that capitalizes on some of the hottest trends in modern gaming.

Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale game — think Fortnite or PUBG — set in the Titanfall universe. There aren’t any of the towering mechs that exist at the heart of the core Titanfall games, however. Instead, Apex Legends takes a page from Overwatch in highlighting a roster of characters that each bring unique gear and abilities to the mix.

Publisher Electronic Arts staged a simultaneous game reveal and release on Monday, with an extended trailer/livestream running through the basics. (There’s also a gameplay trailer and a launch trailer.) While there are plenty of wrinkles that make it stand out, the basics should sound immediately familiar to fans of these sorts of games. Read more…

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