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Things are about to get seriously chaotic in the newest season of Apex Legends. Starting May 7 Upheaval lives up to its name with plenty of new content and changes that’ll keep even the most seasoned Legends on their toes. Ready to find out what’s coming soon to the Apex Games? Just keep reading.

The first Cal Kestis Lego figure has been revealed as part of a new $160 Star Wars set.

Apex Legends will soon offer a Solos mode for the first time since 2019, even though developer Respawn Entertainment said earlier this year it had no plans to let players run amok in the battle by themselves again. When the next season starts, Solos will replace the Duos mode for six weeks.

Free trials of Star Wars games have launched for Xbox and Nintendo Switch players.

Fans finally have their first look at Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’sCal Kestis as a LEGO Star Wars minifigure. The first LEGO Star Wars building sets were released in 1999 to promote Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and for the past 25 years the Galaxy Far, Far Away has been one of LEGO’s most popular settings. About 928 LEGO Star Wars sets have been released as of April 2024, and there have been countless tie-in animated movies and Traveller’s Tales-developed LEGO Star Wars video games to go with them.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the action-adventure title from Respawn Entertainment, is heading to EA Play subscription service. The game is confirmed to be available on the service via Xbox and PC Game Pass starting April 25. Additionally, Jedi: Survivor has been spotted as being included with the EA Play subscription on PlayStation Store in some regions. The acclaimed Star Wars title is joining EA's subscription service almost exactly a year after its release across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.

A third entry in Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars Jedi series seems to have been confirmed by a job listing looking for a Senior Game Writer. After several years of fumbling its exclusive Star Wars license with the Battlefront games, Respawn Entertainment's third-person action Soulslike Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order pleasantly surprised fans in 2019. Its follow-up, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, was released about a year ago to rave reviews despite its rocky technical launch and performance issues, which have since been fixed. Survivor's impeccable storytelling, intricate level design, and challenging lightsaber combat boosted it into the conversation of 2023's best games.

Last year’s hit Star Wars Jedi: Survivor could be coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate through EA Play, and might even be already available in certain regions. Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment took many Star Wars fans by surprise when it released Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in 2019, a single-player action title that introduced former Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis to the Galaxy Far, Far Away. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor continued his story with an assortment of new lightsaber styles and planets to explore, earning mainly positive reviews on consoles and a more mixed reception on PC due to technical issues.

Respawn Entertainment’sStar Wars Jedi: Survivor will be available for EA Play subscribers on April 25th. Of course, it’s also playable for PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate members.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor seems to be in the process of making its way to EA Play.

Apex Legends developer Respawn has told fans it will not change the game to block certain characters and cosmetics from being played during the Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia this summer, despite concerns over how the country might censor the battle royale's diverse character roster.

Respawn Entertainment has just released a highly demanded update for Apex Legends, aimed at restoring players’ missing Breakout Legend Challenge progress. Many Apex Legends gamers experienced issues after recent patches to the game, which left them with lost progress and reset accounts.

Respawn is offering free Apex Packs to all Apex Legends players to compensate for recent issues with the game.

Dead Space remake and Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive is joining Electronic Arts’ wider Battlefield development team.

AnApex Legends leaker has claimed that Season 21 will introduce a quads mode, akimbo weapons, and more. The major update for Apex Legends is expected to release on or around May 7.

Respawn Entertainment briefly had to take Apex Legends offline, because of issues with players losing their save progress.

Following ratings in South Korea and Australia, Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws has been rated in Brazil. With Ubisoft announcing its next showcase for June 10th, it seems more likely than ever that a release date could be announced.

Respawn has apologised to Apex Legends players who have experienced account resets and lost progress after the studio “messed up” a recent game update.

Apex Legends is back with its customary April Fools update, adding the good old Mozambique variants alongside an exciting anti-gravity mechanic. Last year, the Apex Legends event featured a Mozambique that shot Nessies, along with six different versions of the gun, including the likes of Mozamblam and Mozambeam.

The hacker who disrupted the North American Apex Legends Global Series finals has said he did it «just for fun».

Developer Respawn has addressed the recent Apex Legends hacks.

Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that Apex Legends players taking part in a tournament were hacked mid-game.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor drew from many different sources from across the legendary franchise, including the extremely controversial Last Jedi. The second installment in Respawn’s series of Star Wars action titles launched last April and continued the story of Cal Kestis as he traveled across the galaxy on a new mission to uncover a lost Jedi sanctuary. Along the way, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor players unlock new lightsaber stances and Force abilities, battle bounty hunters and Imperial stormtroopers alike, and explore several classic Star Wars locations.

In 2022, EA announced that Respawn Entertainment was partnering with Bit Reactor – a new studio comprised of former XCOM veterans – to work on a new strategy title based on the Star Wars IP. Since then, details on the project have been scant, but new tidbits about its development may have now emerged.

A hacking incident during the Apex Legends Global Series last night has caused wider concerns over Easy Anti-Cheat and whether it's safe to play games it's used in.

The North American finals of Apex Legends have been postponed, after hackers appeared to give competitors cheats mid-game.

Respawn Entertainment—the studio behind games like Titanfall 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Apex Legends—has been hit by layoffs as part of larger cuts taking place throughout EA. As spotted by VGC, various current and now-former members of the Respawn team, including Apex Legends level designer Aaron Stump, took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to talk about the layoffs.

Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has suffered a round of layoffs as part of wider cuts at parent company Electronic Arts.

Apex Legends developer Respawn is the latest studio to be affected by EA layoffs.

Stig Asmussen, acclaimed director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, has split from Respawn Entertainment and EA to create his own AAA game studio named Giant Skull. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched nearly a year ago to high praise from Star Wars fans and from gamers in general, going on to become one of the very best titles of the year, and leaving fans yearning for the series' confirmed third installment.

Stig Asmussen, the director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has revealed his new studio Giant Skull following his departure from Respawn Entertainment and EA last year.

Former Star Wars Jedi series director and God Of War developer Stig Asmussen has founded a new studio, Giant Skull, to work on "gameplay-driven, story immersed action-adventure games set in captivating worlds". Based in Los Angeles, Giant Skull are even now developing a new "AAA single-player-focused action adventure" that runs on Unreal Engine 5.

Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen has announced the formation of his own studio, Giant Skull.

The Battlefield series has lost another high-profile figure in the form of Craig Morrison, who has left his role as studio creative director at EA‘s DICE.

Look for Apex Legends to begin to expand past just the traditional battle royale format in the coming year as part of an overall plan to grow the community and evolve the IP. 

Even as they cancel games and carry out mass layoffs, EA see sunny skies ahead for Respawn's free-to-play battle royale shooter Apex Legends, with CEO Andrew Wilson outlining plans to "expand beyond the traditional battle royale universe".

Apex Legends players can expect to start seeing the game “expand beyond the traditional battle royale universe” over the coming year as Electronic Arts looks to attract more players to the franchise.

Respawn Entertainment is supposedly working on a game that is set in the Titanfall universe. This rumor surfaced after the studio's parent company, Electronic Arts, pulled the plug on a Star Wars first-person shooter.

A small team within Respawn are making a fresh game set in the Titanfall universe, it's been reported — but this project won't be Titanfall 3.

Amidst EA’s recent mass layoffs, it was confirmed that Respawn Entertainment’s single player Star Wars FPS had been cancelled. Work continues, of course, on Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi, and according to journalist Jeff Grubb, a new game set in the Titanfall universe is also in the very early stages of production.

Respawn Entertainment is reportedly working on a new game set in the Titanfall universe.

The developers of EA’s upcoming Star Wars strategy game have confirmed the project survived last week’s mass layoffs at the publisher and the cancellation of a first-person Star Wars shooter from Apex Legends studio Respawn, who are collaborating on the upcoming title.

The upcoming Star Wars strategy game is still in development, Bit Reactor has confirmed. The studio's project status update was offered as part of a wider reflection on the recent news of Electronic Arts canceling Respawn's Star Wars FPS, which was rumored to place the players in the shoes of a Mandalorian bounty hunter.

The Star Wars strategy game from Bit Reactor and EA is still in development, following the cancellation of a Star Wars shooter by Apex Legends studio Respawn last week.

The Star Wars strategy game currently in development at Bit Reactor will continue, despite recent layoffs at publisher EA.

EA is the latest game company to announce layoffs, with 5% of its workforce to be made redundant. From the most recent headcount EA provided – 13,400 in March 2023 – that would amount to around 670 people.

With the cancellation of Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars first-person shooter, reportedly based on The Mandalorian, more details about the project have emerged courtesy of Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson. It was noted to be “fantastic” from developer and playtest feedback, but Electronic Arts felt it was “too much of a financial risk.”

Details about Respawn's canceled Star Wars video game have emerged, as its first-person shooter gameplay would have seemingly provided players with an action-packed linear experience in the role of a Mandalorian bounty hunter. Though Respawn's foray into the Galaxy Far Far Away has been through Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, two critically acclaimed Star Wars titles, Respawn's rise to fame came through Titanfall, a first-person shooter franchise published by Electronic Arts. Widely praised for its fun gameplay, it made sense that Respawn would eventually tackle a Star Wars first-person shooter, which is why the project's cancelation came as a shock to the gaming community as a whole.

Electronic Arts has announced a restructuring plan that will see it lay off approximately 5% of its global workforce.

EA is the latest game company to announce layoffs, with 5% of its workforce to be made redundant. From the most recent headcount EA provided – 13,400 in March 2023 – that would amount to around 670 people.

Electronic Arts has cancelled an in-development Star Wars first-person shooter at Respawn.

With Electronic Arts joining an ever-growing list of companies being hit with layoffs and announcing a 5% reduction in its workforce, the full ramifications of how that will affect individual projects and studios within the company are also being clearer.

As the gaming industry continues to struggle with a bad year of layoffs and cutbacks, publisher EA has canceled a Star Wars FPS that was in the works at Respawn Entertainment. It's no secret that many publishers and developers are struggling at the moment and this is harming both employees and gamers as devs lose their jobs and games face delays or cancelation. Now this worrying trend is impacting fans of shooters and the Star Wars setting.

Marcus Lehto has confirmed that he’s left his position as game director on a new Battlefield title.

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has left the EA studio he founded to work on the next generation of Battlefield games.

Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind the Star Wars Jedi series and Apex Legends, seems to be in the early stages of developing a first-person Mandalorian game. Sadly, it appears to be set during an earlier, pre-Grogu timeframe, but the prospect of hunting bounties for the Galactic Empire seems like a fun time.

Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Apex Legends and the Star Wars Jedi series, are reportedly working on a Mandalorian project.

If you’re a fan of the Star Wars Jedi franchise, then you might have been keen on seeing some of these characters pop up in a live-action series or movie. After all, Star Wars has had a strong lineup of live-action shows since the recent trilogy wrapped. Fortunately, the main protagonist in the series, Cal Kestis, could appear in a live-action series with the same actor who portrays him in the video games.

EA announced a little over a couple years ago that Respawn Entertainment was working on a new single player first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe, with Peter Hirschmann – executive producer on the original Star Wars Battlefront games – serving as game director. And though details on the game have been light since then, a new report published by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has potentially shed light on critical details.

Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind Titanfall and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is supposedly working on a new Star Wars game that could put players in the role of a Mandalorian. These masked warriors have captivated the imaginations of Star Wars since Boba Fett first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, and they have been a staple of the franchise’s Expanded Universe for decades. Recent Star Wars media like The Mandalorian has fleshed out the lore and culture of the Mandalorians in Disney’s official canon, making the idea of playing as one in a video game all the more enticing for fans.

It has been revealed that a new is in development, with the studio behind the Star Wars game also being known.

It’s been a while since Respawn Entertainment provided an update on its upcoming Star Wars projects following the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. According to Insider-Gaming’s Tom Henderson, the studio is seemingly cooking a “Star Wars single-player experience I think a lot of people have wanted for a long time.”

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was an excellent game, but it was undoubtedly held back by the many technical issues it launched with. Since its release, developer Respawn Entertainment has released several patches to iron out the game’s rough edges, and another patch has now been released- though this one isn’t focused on addressing any bugs or technical issues.

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Respawn Entertainment, the developers behind the first-person shooter Apex Legends, is warning players to hold off unlinking their PlayApex accounts as cross-progression rollouts occur. 

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After an exciting Virtual Press Event and a detailed blog post, we got a ton of new information revealed on all the changes coming to Storm Point in Apex Legends Season 19.

It’s a good time to be an Apex Legends fan at the moment. With the ongoing Halloween event and an upcoming Post Malone collab, the game feels like it’s getting some newfound interest. However, to make the excitement last it looks like we’re getting our 26th hero in Conduit for Season 19. While she’s been making appearances in the background lore of Apex Legends, we’re finally getting some concrete evidence. Thanks to a few solid leaks, there’s some more information on Conduit’s abilities for Season 19, and we got the details below.

The changes and added elements in Apex Legends never seem to end. That makes sense with the game being a service. For each season introduced, Apex Legend has a bunch of things that are altered such as new maps or reworked heroes like Revenant in Season 18. But more importantly, a new legend that often changes (breaks) the meta of Apex Legends. For the upcoming 20th Season, this is the same. We’re getting a 25th legend who goes by Conduit. While we don’t know much about this character, we have some information that has weight to it. Follow along below for the juicy details on the new legend.

Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has received a new patch. It’s not very big, but there are some essential fixes, like for creature and vehicle animations. Furthermore, there’s a fix for the binocular beacons not working when ray tracing is disabled.

Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind the Titanfall and Apex Legends franchise, has been dropping hints about Titanfall 3 across two of its games. These tenuous hints could mean anything, but fans aren’t letting them go.

Actor Cameron Monaghan casually confirmed that a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in development. During the Ocala Comic Con event, the voice and motion capture artist behind the protagonist Cal Kestis said, “We're working on the third. We're in the process of doing it right now.” The news comes as a surprise, considering the series director Stig Asmussen, who rebuilt and instilled faith in single-player Star Wars games, recently left EA/ Respawn Entertainment. However, he always expressed interest in furthering and concluding Cal's arc through a trilogy, with discussions of a sequel dating back even before 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was out.

Given the widespread critical and commercial success that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have enjoyed, it seems safe to assume that there will be a third game in the series, and though one hasn’t been officially announced yet, actor Cameron Monaghan, who plays Star Wars Jedi protagonist Cal Kestis, has let slip that work on the series’ next instalment is underway.

Titanfall 2 is back. Respawn Entertainment’s beloved shooter, precursor to the massive Apex Legends and still arguably the best of the best FPS games on PC, Titanfall 2 multiplayer is once again playable after quiet fixes behind the scenes. On top of that, it’s also available dirt cheap with a massive Steam sale discount, meaning that if you still haven’t experienced its breathtaking campaign or its high-octane, best-in-class multiplayer now’s a great time to jump in.

Director Stig Asmussen, who worked onStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment. In a statement to Bloomberg, an Electronic Arts spokesperson said, “After careful thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has decided to leave Respawn to pursue other adventures, and we wish him the best of luck.”

Respawn Entertainment, developer of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Titanfall and Apex Legends, among others, is working on some exciting new projects, according to Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson.

When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched earlier this year, the action-adventure sequel was praised widely by critics and audiences for everything from its storytelling and characters to its combat and exploration. On the technical side of things, however, the game was on the receiving end of some criticism, with its performance on consoles being one of several areas that weren’t up to scratch. Developer Respawn Entertainment has, of course, continued to release patches for the game in the wake of its launch to address many of those issues, and the newest patch, patch 7, targets performance on consoles above all else.

Respawn Entertainment is once again allowing players to take their legends with them in Apex Legends . The battle royal already has cross-play that allows players to play with friends no matter the platform. While this was a welcoming addition, we all are hoping this feature can be better with cross-progression. Meaning, if you change platforms, what you’ve done on the original platform will go with you on the next platform. This would be a great feature since players don’t have to grind all over again just to maintain their place. However, this feature has been absent from Apex Legends  and players such as myself have been asking for it for a long time. Our prayers have seemed to be answered with new information regarding cross-platform. If you’re like me and have spent hundreds of hours on  Apex Legends  and don’t want to climb that mountain again, we got all that information for you below. 

Electronic Arts announced its preliminary results for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, ending June 30th, 2023. The publisher announced “record” Q1 results with EA Sports global football (i.e. FIFA and Madden NFL) and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor providing “strong momentum.” Net bookings hit $1.578 billion, a 21 percent increase year-over-year.

In spite of its fair share of technical woes, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has enjoyed plenty of critical and commercial success since its launch earlier this year, making it two for two where EA and Respawn Entertainment’s single player Star Wars titles are concerned. In fact, to no one’s surprise, EA seems to have every intention of making more games in the Star Wars Jedi series.