Apex Legends News

Apex Legends Valk: abilities, leaks, and teasers

Apex Legends Season 9 is fast approaching, and that usually means some exciting new additions to the Apex Games. We're anticipating changes to maps, potential "new ways to play," and of course the next addition to the roster in Apex Legends, Valk.

The Apex Legends characters are the heart and soul of the game, and each new season brings another face to the fight. Whether you're a staunch Rampart main or someone who flits between meta picks to keep your skills honed, everyone wants to try out the newest additions for size. After all, how else will we find out how good they are, how Valkyrie's abilities will synergise with other legends, or how much fun they are to play?

Whether you're preparing for the rumoured Apex Legends' Arena mode, you're just trying to make your way up the Apex Legends ranks, or you're just here for a healthy dose of lore, a new character adds a lot of excitement to Apex proceedings. How will Valkyrie's abilities affect the meta? Will she fly high like Horizon or flicker out like Fuse? Only time will tell.

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Apex Legends Mobile will be a "new game," and won't have crossplay

Apex Legends is finally coming to mobile devices. Just over a month after the release of Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch, Respawn has announced that it will start bringing its hit battle royale game to the smallest screen of all this month, starting with Android devices.

Respawn is marketing Apex Legends Mobile as its own, brand "new game," although it will still be a battle royale similar to the game that players have been playing for more than two years to date. Apex Legends crossplay allows players across PC and console to play with each other, but the mobile game will not support the crossplay. Furthermore, it will feature entirely different battle passes and cosmetics specifically for mobile players.

According to Apex Legends' game director Chad Grenier, the regular Apex Legends development team is working with a partner studio and "a dedicated team... filled with experts in mobile game development." Initially the game will be tested in India and the Philippines, where "a few thousand" players will be able to jump into matches on Android devices. Respawn will open testing to more people and regions over time, and will also add iOS support.

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EA's head of broadcast on taking "calculated risks" with Apex Legends esports coverage

Apex Legends had only a handful of LAN show matches before the official esports scene truly kicked off in Krakow, Poland. The event has gone down in Apex Legends folklore, simply due to the fact that it's one of the only live, in-person events that the battle royale game has ever seen. The Finals went on for an astonishing 11 rounds before TSM was crowned the victor, and despite the match point system needing tweaks - as ALGS commissioner John Nelson told us last week - the Preseason Invitational was considered a success.

"That was a great opportunity to tell the story [of the tournament], because we had everybody there," explains EA's head of broadcast, Joe Lynch. "We could show all the players, we could show that emotion. When 789 was making their big runs out of nowhere, we could actually interview them, talk to them, and see the expression when they got finished. Or when TSM won the whole thing, we could see that excitement in them and we could tell that emotional story. That was a good start."

Lynch's most challenging task when broadcasting a battle royale tournament is simple: "How do you tell the story?" When he works on the broadcasts for other EA titles, things are much more simple. In FIFA and Madden, matches are 1v1 - the stories tell themselves. But with 20 teams and 60 players competing in Apex Legends Global Series tournaments, analysing and telling the stories of even a single match becomes a daunting task.

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Apex Legends player gets team disqualified by going for a poo

A Thai Apex Legends pro has got his team disqualified from a GLL APAC South tournament after his girlfriend played for him while he apparently used the bathroom.

Lertpong 'Dexter' Nakurai, Sinchai 'Chambers' Sotsiao, and Teerachock 'Killoposz' Muedin are a well-known trio in Apex esports. The Thai roster was at one point the best team in the world in terms of Apex Legends Global Series points, and still today holds the second-highest amount of ALGS points, topped only by T1's South Korean team.

However, the players - who now play under the name Tom Yum Kung after they were released from organisation Made in Thailand - had their run in the GLL tournament cut short after they were disqualified for fielding a mid-game substitute. The substitute in question was Dexter's girlfriend, after the player appeared to indicate he was feeling unwell and needed to urgently use the bathroom, according to a rough translation by u/nradit99. A Thai speaker has confirmed this to The Loadout. In order to prevent getting kicked for being AFK, Dexter asks his girlfriend to take control of his Wraith. All of this is happening on Dexter's Twitch stream of the matches.

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В Apex Legends играет больше 100 млн человек, разработчики тизерят крупное обновление

Издательство EA и студия Respawn Entertainment сообщили о том, что количество игроков в Apex Legends преодолела отметку в 100 миллионов человек. Дабы отметить достижение, был опубликован новый трейлер.