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Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
Apex Legends Shockwave season adds unlimited revivals, dual-wielding, and a versus bots mode August 6
The next season for Apex Legends - you know, the battle royale shooter that wanted to double-charge players for battle passes until fans furiously...
Apex Legends slightly reels back battle pass changes after players revolt on Steam
Respawn Entertainment can now add its name to the dubious list of companies that screwed around and found out in very short order. At...
EA lays off nearly 700 workers to ‘deliver the entertainment players want’ and ‘optimize its global real estate footprint’
If your friends decided to jump off a bridge lay off hundreds of the very workers who made their products, would you do it...
Apex Legends introduces Conduit, Valorant introduces Iso
The hero shooter sub-genre generally gets more interesting when new heroes arrive to the game, which would certainly explain why both Valorant and Apex...
Apex Legends launches its Eclipse season with a new character, new map, and the ability to send gifts
Presumably, most of what people gift one another in Apex Legends is headshots, but as of the game's newest season, actual gifts can be...
Apex Legends draws a line in the sand over increased developer harassment
We all get mad at games, and some of us even get mad at game studios. However, when that anger boils over into harassment...
EA fires Apex Legends lead designer over past sexist and racist remarks
Daniel Klein, a lead game designer on the battle royale shooter Apex Legends, has been fired from his position by Electronic Arts and Respawn...
Apex Legends boss addresses developers suffering work-from-home burnout and crunch
The Apex Legends subreddit had a little tire fire this past Friday as a result of a Glassdoor review of developer Respawn Entertainment that...
Gaming companies from Blizzard to Daybreak stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week.
Sony has apparently decided...
MMO Business Roundup: Valve is shopping around Dota 2’s top tourney
Time for another quick roundup of a bunch of MMO-adjacent businessy stories that were drowning in our busy Thursday newsroom!
The International: Valve is raising...
Apex Legends’ latest event is all about Wraith the Voidwalker
Wraith mains, these next few days are all about you. Apex Legends is hosting a new event called Voidwalker for the next two weeks...
TV networks block Apex Legends esports tourney broadcast following mass shootings
In what is being explained as a move of "respect for the victims and all those impacted" by recent mass shooting events in Texas...
Apex Legends kicks off its second season with an altered arena and a new legend
The Apex Games are back in full swing, as Apex Legends has just kicked off its second season. Dubbed Battle Charge, the new season...
Over 777,000 Apex Legends cheaters have been banned as Respawn cracks down
In last week's Apex Legends developer blog, Project Lead Drew McCoy said that the Respawn Entertainment team has been hard at work trying to...
Apex Legends devs discuss season 2, content cadence, and avoiding development crunch
Although the frankly obscene amount of hype that surrounded Apex Legends in the weeks following its launch earlier this year has subsided to more...
Apex Legends kicks off its first season today with battle pass and Octane
The first season of Apex Legends officially begins today with the release of the premiere battle pass and the addition of the game's first...
Apex Legends developer reminds players that datamined information is not a development roadmap
Gosh, people really do seem to love Apex Legends, and with that comes the natural human impulse to dig around in the game's data files...
Apex Legends outlines balance changes as well as the philosophy of balance
Balance is a tricky beast in a game like Apex Legends, and that's the core of the philosophy behind Respawn's overall approach to changes. The...
Apex Legends just secured its 50 millionth player
Respawn and EA announced this morning a big milestone for surprise battle royale hit Apex Legends: It's just racked up its 50 millionth player.
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