Apex Legends recently started a thread on Reddit which was designed to discuss the Iron Crown Collection Event, or more specifically, it's shortcomings, as the company admitted it had "missed the mark" with the event which w seen as too expensive and complicated.Sadly it seems that the move to try and smooth things over with fans has only descended into furt...
If there's one downside I can level at Apex Legends, it's that sometimes, having to partner with a random stranger when you just want to play solo can be a real chore, pot-luck affair. Thankfully, Respawn have listened, and a new solo mode will be coming to the game on August 13th.The bad news is the new solo mode will only run for two weeks as part of the I...
Following on from the interesting anti-cheating news from PUBG Corp yesterday, it seems that Apex Legends has it's own clever methods to thwart cheaters and general bad-eggs, by basically matching them up with themselves.Once gain Machine Learning is being used to tackle the problem. When certain behaviors are detected, cheats are auto-banned. What's interes...
A mysterious 'Crypto Laptop' has appeared in Apex Legends 2, ahead of the launch of Season 2, and many suspect it may be a hint of a new character.The laptop does not actually appear to do much, at least for the moment, but it's currently theorized that it's a tease for a new character called Crypto, who hasn't yet been officially announced. It would make s...
While the industry seems to be aimed towards the direction of streaming game services, like Google's Stadia, rather than hardware in the home, it seems not all game developers are overly enthusiastic about the prospect.Respawn's executive producer, Drew McCoy, sat down with Game Informer recently and discussed how he does not feel the system will ever be sui...
It seems that Fortnite need not have worried when Apex Legends burst onto the scene, as despite a high initial popularity, there seems to be figures now suggesting that it's quickly fell out of favour, with Fortnite remaining ever increasing and steady.The report comes via VGR, who are using the fairly reliable metric of viewing figures for livestreams. The...
You may have noticed recently that other players in the latest Battle Royale Apex Legends seem to be falling from nowhere out of the sky, and here's the glitch they're using to do it.It all surrounds supply crates - it seems that when you punch the lid of an open supply crate repeatedly, it will launch the player into the air and across the map in the direct...
In the first of two parts of news coming out of EA this week following their annual investors conference call, the newly released Apex Legends has shown itself to be off to a flying start, with a huge 2.5 million gamers logging onto the game in it's opening day.The company stated that in addition to the 2.5 million unique players that day, at it's peak, ther...