As Electronic Arts’ recently announced restructuring gains momentum, even developers working on the company’s most successful games are not safe. It appears that Respawn Entertainment has been hit with layoffs.

No game engine is perfect. And sometimes developers may have a hard time working with specific frameworks due to a large amount of legacy code or lack of good documentation.

Electronic Arts has conducted a new round of mass layoffs. The entire testing team at the Baton Rouge, Louisiana office that worked on Apex Legends has reportedly been disbanded. And none of the QA workers knew about it in advance.

When announcing the shutdown of Apex Legends Mobile, Electronic Arts stated that it no longer lived up to the bar for quality. The reasons, however, must be more complex given that the game has been one of the highest performing titles in the company’s mobile portfolio.

Google has revealed the winners of its 2022 Play Awards. Just like Apple did earlier this week, the company named Apex Legends Mobile the best game of the year.

Over 35 million people have already played Overwatch 2, a free-to-play sequel to Blizzard’s hero shooter. That’s an impressive start, but let’s see how these numbers compare to the launches of other successful F2P games.

Apex Legends has reached another milestone after the Season 14 launch. Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale broke its previous record for peak concurrent players by almost 100k users.

It’s been a month since Electronic Arts launched Apex Legends Mobile. The game has already reached over $13 million in revenue on iOS and Android, with the US and Japan accounting for more than two-thirds of this sum.

Electronic Arts has released a new financial report, saying that it had record net bookings for the year ended March 31, 2022. The company also revealed the latest results of its top games.

Electronic Arts has opened pre-registrations for Apex Legends Mobile. As a result, the upcoming mobile title has already attracted over 7.5 million Android users.

Blizzard and Respawn Entertainment lost a few key developers yesterday. The list includes Diablo IV lead designer, who reportedly was involved in an ongoing harassment scandal, and Apex Legends game designer, who was fired after his bigoted posts from 2007 have resurfaced.

Some Apex Legends players felt “cheated” over having to pay $18 for legendary items. Respawn tried to defend its pricing strategy and monetization methods, saying that the studio wants to “keep the business healthy.”

According to Newzoo, as of May 2019, 41% of the U.S. gamers play either Fortnite, Apex Legends, or PUBG. It might be tempting to recognize battle royale as a genre in its own right that is distinct from shooter. However, the three titles do not share the same community, with people attracted to various battle royale games for different reasons.

Last week wasn’t very lucky for EA. Company’s market cap fell by nearly 10%. This is due to players’ cold reception of Apex Legends 2.

Small game companies have paid streamers to promote their games for ages. Now big publishers like Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Take-Two have embraced the marketing power of live broadcasting.