Battle royale shooter Apex Legends now has more than 100 million unique players globally, EA and Respawn announced on Wednesday. The free-to-play game surpassed the big milestone just over two years after its February 2019 launch.
Apex Legends now has more than 100 million players
The game recently celebrated its second anniversary
The game recently celebrated its second anniversary
Image: Respawn
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Apex Legends’ success is just the latest indication that free-to-play battle royale shooters remain very popular, despite the genre becoming quite crowded over the past couple of years. Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone hit more than 75 million players last August, reaching that mark less than five months after its March 2020 launch. And Epic Games said that its smash hit Fortnite had an eye-popping 350 million registered players last May — presumably, that number has only climbed.
Since Apex Legends’ launch on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, Respawn has continued to add new content and updates to the game, and it even released a (delayed) port to the Nintendo Switch in March. The game now has 16 playable characters, three different maps, and is currently in its eighth season.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
- The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time
- Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80
- Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
- PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
