Apex Legends Mobile Will Release Worldwide This Month

thegamer.com:

Apex Legends Mobile has been in testing stages for what feels like an eternity at this point, but developer Respawn has finally announced that it will be released worldwide this month. The mobile version of Respawn’s popular battle royale makes a few departures from the PC and console games, but fans remain excited to check it out on their phones.

While you’re hardly going to be competing in the ALGS on your iPhone, titles like Garena Free Fire suggest there could be an esports life for Apex Mobile, and its unique and exclusive content could tempt hardcore PC and console players to make the move, at least to try it out. In a preview, Apex Legends Mobile’s design director, Jordan Patz, tells TheGamer that the game will include “mobile first optimisations [and] mobile exclusive content,” as well as showing off a little gameplay.

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Apex Legends Mobile is kicking off with ten of the Legends that we know and love, and the preview confirmed nine of those. Bloodhound, Gibraltar, Lifeline, Pathfinder, Wraith, Bangalore, Octane, Caustic, and Mirage will be available at launch, along with one other. It really feels like going back to Season 0 – or at least somewhere near the beginning of Apex – and the maps look to channel the same sense of nostalgia.

“We're taking players back to classic World’s Edge and Kings Canyon,” Patz says. “We're adding some twists to excite old school fans as well.” Yes, you read that right, it looks like Skull Town and the train that circuits World’s Edge are returning for Apex Mobile. We don’t know whether Apex Mobile will get seasonal map updates like its big brother, and we don’t know whether these updates will follow the same roadmap as the regular