Items tagged with battle royale
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Dec 12, 2019
Game devs seemingly can't launch a shooter without a battle royale mode today to appease gamers. Battle royale fever is extending beyond the shooter realm with an announcement that Forza Horizon 4 is getting a new game mode called The...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Aug 21, 2019
The battle royale genre has exploded in popularity over the last couple of years with titles like Fortnite and PUBG leading the way. Needless to say, many developers are looking to get in on the battle royale free-for-all, and the latest...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 29, 2019
When I was 16 years old, I remember cruising the mall and local stores in search for a job that would inevitably pay minimum wage, as many jobs do at that age. Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf eschewed the traditional route that most teens take, and...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Jul 01, 2019
There's a new Call of Duty arriving later this year, and it's a reboot of Modern Warfare. The first Modern Warfare launched over a decade ago, and the most recent outing was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
However, thanks to a new...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Jun 21, 2019
Apex Legends fans have a lot going on right now to soak in. This week dragons have turned up in the game that drop loot when shot, but some wondered how you actually kill them and what might happen if you do. A lot more is going in the...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jun 10, 2019
Bethesda was at E3 2019, and during its showcase, it offered up a pair of trailers that show all the gaming goodness coming to Fallout 76 this year. Gamers have been very critical of Fallout 76 since it launched with many fans of the...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Jun 09, 2019
Apex Legends is still a popular battle royale game that is free to play, like its Fortnite counterpart. Respawn is always updating the game and trying to fight cheaters to keep Apex Legends fun for everyone. It announced last month that it...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, May 27, 2019
Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world with massive Hollywood movie crossover events and special edition Xbox consoles to underscore its popularity. The game also has a dark underbelly with over 1,000 cheaters banned during the...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 08, 2019
The mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUGB) sees over 70 million average daily users in China, but even so, Tencent Holdings is yanking the game and replacing it with a more government friendly alternative called Game for...
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Shane McGlaun - Sat, Apr 27, 2019
Epic Games is continuously working on new gameplay mechanics and features for the popular battle royale game Fortnite. Most recently it announced a crossover event with Avengers: End Game that saw Thanos come to the game for players to...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Apr 19, 2019
Fortnite might be feeling more pressure from games like Apex Legends of late, but Fortnite is still extremely popular and doing very well with gamers. One of the keys to Fortnite's success is constant updates such as the recently added...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 22, 2019
Maybe it came down to a licensing issue or perhaps publisher Electronic Arts never considered it, but I can't help but there there was a missed, golden opportunity to play Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire to the new gameplay trailer for...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Mar 09, 2019
Apex Legends is one of those super-rare games that seems to come along out of nowhere, and then strikes the right chord with millions upon millions of gamers a mere month after its launch -- over 50 million gamers and counting, in fact. In...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 08, 2019
Pitting players in a battle royale scenario where the map shrinks until only one person or squad is left standing is all the rage right now—see the success of PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG), Fortnite, or more recently Apex Legends as...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Mar 04, 2019
Do you hear that, folks? That’s the sound of potential growing concern over at Epic Games headquarters in Cary, NC. Respawn Entertainment co-founder Vince Zampella took to Twitter this morning to announce that Apex Legends has surpassed 50...
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Brittany Goetting - Sun, Feb 17, 2019
Apex Legends has only been out for two weeks, but the game may already soon receive a major update. Data miners have discovered the names of two possible future Apex Legends heroes and the names of their special abilities. “Octane” and...
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Brittany Goetting - Fri, Feb 15, 2019
Have you been wanting to take a crack at playing Fortnite? Now may be your chance to jump in on the action. Earthquake fissures have begun to appear on the Fortnite map.
There had been a number of earthquakes in the game leading up to the v7.40 update on February 14th. Until the update, the...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Feb 11, 2019
It's been quite the rollercoaster ride for shares of EA lately. The company saw its latest entry in its bread and butter Battlefield franchise, Battlefield V underperform, sending its stock shares plummeting. Then its subsidiary Respawn...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Feb 08, 2019
Respawn Entertainment jumped into the battle royale realm recently with a game set in the Titanfall world called Apex Legends. The game launched on February 4 and within eight hours of launch, it had 1 million people playing. Respawn is...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 05, 2019
Developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher Electronic Arts have a hit on their hands with Apex Legends, a free-to-play game that went live yesterday and broke a million unique players in under eight hours. It is an incredible stat, and...
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Brittany Goetting - Sun, Feb 03, 2019
If you are a fan of Titanfall, and the battle royale genre as well, you may soon be in for a real treat. Rumor has it that Apex Legends, a battle royale Titanfall spin-off, will be released as soon as Monday, February 4th. The game is...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 27, 2018
Incorporating a battle royale mode seems to be a recipe for success in the online multiplayer space, given the wild popularity of games like Fortnite and, before that, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Will Red Dead Redemption 2 get a battle...
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