Report: Ubisoft developing battle royale title to Apex Legends

The firm reckons it can poach players from Respawn's hit

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• apex legends

PUBG: Battlegrounds free-to-play move brought in over 80k new users daily

The game made the shift in January of this year

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• free-to-play
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PUBG concurrent player count almost doubles after free-to-play move

Title hit 670k users after this shift

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• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale
• concurrent players
• player data
• pubg: battlegrounds

PUBG free-to-play move apparently nothing to do with Fortnite, Warzone and Apex Legends

Seemingly it's all a matter of timing

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• battle royale
• pubg
• free-to-play

Over 500k accounts banned from Call of Duty: Warzone for cheating

Latest milestone revealed by developer Raven Software

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• cheating
• free-to-play
• bans
• call of duty: warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone reaches 100m players in just over a year

Title launched back in March 2020

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• battle royale
• free-to-play
• warzone
• call of duty: warzone

Apex Legends hits 100m players

Titanfall-inspired battle royale title has brought in 30m users since end of 2019

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• apex legends

475,000 cheaters have been banned from Call of Duty: Warzone

Developer Raven Software is going after cheat sellers and makers, too

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• cheaters
• anti-cheat
• bans
• call of duty: warzone

Apex Legends closes in on 200k concurrent Steam players

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• concurrent users
• player figures
• apex legends

Apex Legends hits new Steam concurrent player record

Title saw 13.7 per cent spike in peak simultaneous users in January

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• concurrent players
• apex legends
• player data

343 Industries shoots down Halo Infinite battle royale rumours

"I'm aware we could help solve this with real news"

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• game development
• halo infinite

Epic adding subscription service to Fortnite next week

Follows rumours that something like this was coming to the battle royale game

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• battle royale
• subscription
• fortnite crew

Epic is seeing if players want Fortnite subscription

Company currently surveying users on the topic

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• battle royale
• subscription

Respawn says it refuses to crunch team on Apex Legends

Game director Grenier says updates might be slower, but staff health is a priority

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• game development
• working culture
• crunch
• apex legends

Apex Legends on track to become $1bn game this year

Free-to-play battle royale title could hit milestone two years after its release

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• apex legends
• one billion