Apex Legends Battle Royale managed to top the weekly Steam sales chart, surpassing Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 and other products at the box office. The last time this happened was almost a year ago — in February 2023.

The authors of Apex Legends believe in the successful future of the game, senior design director of the project Evan Nikolich told IGN. According to him, Respawn hopes that Apex Legends will be able to repeat the fate of Counter-Strike and remain interesting to users for many years to come.

On August 9, the 14th season of Apex Legends started. The very next day, the Respawn Entertainment project attracted more simultaneous Steam players than ever — 511,676 people.

Electronic Arts (EA) told about this in a report for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. However, the company did not disclose the figures. She managed with the phrase that last year the share of net revenue of projects was “substantial” and is unlikely to decrease in the near future.

Electronic Arts reported for the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). Total cash receipts turned out to be a record, despite disappointing sales of Battlefield 204 2. The franchise is not being written off, but Apex Legends has now become the flagship shooter for the publisher.The main thing from the financial report

Several key Blizzard and Respawn Entertainment developers lost their jobs yesterday. We are talking, among other things, about the leading game designer Diablo IV, who was indirectly involved in the ongoing harassment scandal. Game designer Apex Legends has also resigned from his post. This is due to his statements of 14 years ago, in which racism and sexism were found.Dismissal of the leading game designer of Apex Legends

Some players in Apex Legends felt cheated because of the high cost of cosmetic items. Now developers are asking for $18 for one “legend”, which, according to users, is too much. Respawn representatives tried to explain their pricing policy and said that creating “cosmetics” is not cheap.During a series of questions and answers with the developers of Apex Legends on Reddit, one of the users clarified: “Given the growth of the game, can we expect…

The Battle Royale of Apex Legends, developed by Respawn and published by Electronic Arts, continues to develop and gain popularity (albeit not as actively as at the start). Now the game has overcome an important milestone of 100 million players.Developers from Respawn announced this achievement on Twitter.

On March 10, Activision Blizzard launched a free battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone. During the first day, its audience exceeded 6 million players.

This summer, there was a sharp drop in interest in Fortnite among Twitch viewers. As it turned out, not only the views, but also the revenue of the game in the United States fell. In July, she earned 52% less than in the same month last year.

In July, digital game sales reached $9.02 billion. This market grew by 5% year-on-year, despite the PC and console segments sagging for the third month in a row.

It seems that the loot boxes have seriously damaged the reputation of Apex Legends and Respawn personally. The studio was criticized for the fact that cosmetics in the new event fell out only from boxes with loot.

Last week was unsuccessful for EA. The company’s market capitalization has fallen by almost 10%. The reason is the cold reception of the second season of Apex Legends from the players.

Apex Legends had a very high-profile launch. And the project got off to a great start. However, the publisher of the game Electronic Arts has not shared the indicators of the game for a long time. And they could have fallen decently.

Newzoo and StreamLabs revealed the most popular games on Twitch for the first quarter of this year. The leader on the site is still Fortnite. But the competition with the new EA title turned into a loss of views for her.

The controversial MMO shooter Anthem from BioWare in its debut month turned out to be more commercially successful than Apex Legends from Respawn Entertainment.

Electronic Arts could pay about $1 million to one of the influencers who promoted Apex Legends at the start.

Fortnite lost the lead to the new battle royale.

This week, Electronic Arts seems to be sitting on two chairs. Apex Legends has another victory, and Anthem has found itself in the center of a new scandal.