A couple of years after its last release, Respawn Entertainment surprised the game industry by simultaneously announcing and launching a free to play battle royale title called Apex Legends . While many other attempts were made and ultimately failed to capture the success of PUBG and Fortnite , Apex Legends continues to grow at a rapid pace having just crossed 50 million players in about a months time . Even though its popularity remains high and content updates continue to arrive at a consistent rate, Apex Legends does suffer from a few issues that negatively sets it apart from its closest riv

That belief can be seen not only in Metal Gear Solid concept art but this new short film-style trailer. Nothing seen in the trailer can actually be executed in the game, after all. Well, except wiping out your opponents, that is. Instead, the trailer retains the general themes and concepts represented in the game. It also emphasizes the epic, tense, and amusing scenarios that can arise in the game - all of which serve to make the genre so addictive. With a big screen Resident Evil reboot coming, Hollywood isn't giving up on mining material from games. Thankfully, Vogt-Roberts is helping to pave the way and show them how it's d

On the whole, the addition of this one new weapon attachment stands poised to change the fundamental way that people play PUBG . In the past, you've usually needed a long-range gun and a short-range gun and you've had to equip attachments to them to help with that distinction. Now, however, you can employ an M416, for example, throughout the entire game for both short and long-range fights. This essentially frees up your second weapon s

In all of that time, I've never seen an update as influential to PUBG as the addition of Canted Sights. In case you have no idea what that means or you're just looking to learn how to use them, here you

In celebration of the imminent launch, a trailer was released on the official PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds YouTube channel. Although billed as a trailer, the video plays more like a short film, with Vogt-Roberts' big screen sensibilities shining through. The video stars Nick Robinson and Jason Mitchell, who previously worked with Vogt-Roberts on Kings of Summer and Kong: Skull Island , respectively. After parachuting into a real-world version of the game's environment, Mitchell is beset by numerous gun-toting threats with only a frying pan (and some perfectly punctual allies) for protection. Check it out be

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the creator behind PUBG _ , has officially left the battle royale genre behind in pursuit of a new direction and the potential of other, less-explored genres. The creative mind behind _PUBG recently left his position at the game's studio in favor of heading a new internal division called PUBG Corp's Special Projects divis

Recently, the Chinese government created an Online Gaming Ethics Review Committee to ensure video games do not contain "ethically questionable content." Of the 20 games reviewed by this new committee, 11 developers were instructed to take "corrective action." 9 games have been selected, including Fortnite , to be banned in its entirety. While the banned games may be a surprise to some, it's worth mentioning that China has even censored Winnie the Pooh in Kingdom Hearts

In terms of networking features, Apex Legends also came back pretty barebones. As of right now, the game doesn't have Network Warning Icons, it does not favor Pubgfrontierzone.com the shooter limitation for players with more than 200ms ping, and it's missing many standard networking settings like an FPS limiter and a Network Graph or Overlay. Packet Splitting is also set as server to client and sends 5 packets per update, the highest of all the games listed in this test. The more times the packet is split, the higher the chance that the player sees lag or odd behavior. Now, it's worth pointing out that each of the other games in this test also suffered from their own issues, but Apex Legends had negative results in nearly every category tes

As Battle(non)sense points out, the networking side of the game seems to have been less of a focus than the moment to moment gameplay and fresh take on the genre as a whole . Considering EA is currently looking to hire a senior network engineer for Apex Legends and that the game has garnered a staggering amount of success since it released last month, it's looking likely that many of these issues may be fixed sooner than la

That's not to say, however, that the games selected by the Review Committee have been banned over a meme. For the most part, the games banned seem to come down to blood and gore, vulgar content, overly revealing female characters, and inharmonious chatter. The latter is defined as a "perceived lack of effort to combat toxicity , vulgarity, and politically sensitive speech" in ch

Meanwhile, Greene's new projects sound equally exciting: he's been clear that the Special Division isn't " doing this for profit " just yet, and that there's more exploration at play to begin with. The division will also be given several years to work out what it's aim is, without need for deadlines or profit margins to start. Whatever Greene decides to pursue, he'll be able to do it without restrict