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Electronic Arts has already revealed plans to talk in depth about Apex Legends season 2 during E3 2019, but before that happens, Respawn Entertainment is parting with a few morsels of information today. Respawn has revealed some high-level changes coming to the season 2 Battle Pass, and they seem like changes the larger playerbase is really going to like. On top of all of that, Respawn also announced a new event called The Legendary Hunt that's coming to the game next week.

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This year, Electronic Arts is breaking with tradition and won't be hosting a press conference at E3 2019. That doesn't mean the company will be skipping the show entirely, though - it'll still be there, but it's planning to jump into EA PLAY immediately instead of holding its typical presser first. Today, EA revealed the streaming schedule for EA PLAY, and it's a pretty packed one.

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When it was released in February, Apex Legends impressed pretty much everyone with its explosive popularity. Now, it seems, that popularity may have fallen off significantly. Though Respawn and EA don't talk specifics when it comes to player count and total playing spending, new insights from SuperData are suggesting that Apex Legends is on a very steep downward trend.

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It's no secret that Electronic Arts likes to give away free games through Origin. Usually, these games are classics from way back in the day, making these giveaways good for a hefty dose of nostalgia. This week, however, the free game is quite the whopper, as EA is giving away copies of The Sims 4 to anyone who wants them.

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Respawn's struggle with Apex Legends cheaters has already been well-documented, but there's another problem plaguing players: piggy-backing. When someone piggy-backs, they're essentially trying to farm experience points by joining games but not contributing to their team's success. They're dead weight, in other words, and in a team-based game, that's no good.

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We're now almost a couple of months deep into Apex Legends' first season, and a lot of people are wondering when details about the second season might start coming around the bend. As it turns out, players have a little bit longer to wait for that information. Electronic Arts has confirmed that new details about Apex Legends season 2 are the way, but they won't be here until E3 2019.

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EA Access is a service that has been available on Xbox One for a number of years now - nearly five, to be a little more precise. All this time, PlayStation 4 owners have been left out in the cold. When EA was first launching the subscription service, Sony decided against allowing it on PS4, noting that it didn't think it offered enough value to PS4 owners.

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While free-to-play games are great in the sense that they allow you to play without putting any money on the line, that low barrier to entry also means that they're a prime target for cheaters. Nowhere is this more obvious than in competitive games like Apex Legends and Fortnite. In fact, battle royale as a genre seems to attract cheaters, as PUBG has had its own problems with people skirting the rules, despite the fact that it costs $30 through Steam.

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BioWare's Anthem has been something of a controversial title ever since it released a little more than two months ago. Players have lodged a lot of complaints about the game in the 10 weeks since launch, from bug issues to the way loot works to problems with the overall game flow. BioWare has taken notice of those complaints, and has now said that much of its work on Anthem will shift toward fixing these problems.

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It's going to be a big weekend for Star Wars, as Star Wars Celebration 2019 is currently being held in Chicago. While Disney has already revealed some key information about the next Star Wars movie, Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker, the movies aren't the only focus of the weekend. Tomorrow, we'll also be learning more about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, an upcoming game from the folks at Respawn Entertainment.

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If you booted up Apex Legends yesterday only be greeted with the alarming fact that your progression had seemingly been wiped, you definitely weren't alone. As it turns out, the 1.1 update that shipped earlier this week had that particularly nasty side effect for some users. The good news is that player progression wasn't permanently lost, and Respawn has now pushed a patch out the door that fixes the issue.

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Electronic Arts has announced a round of layoffs which will see 350 employees lose their jobs. This announcement follows a similar move from Activision-Blizzard, which laid off 8% of its workforce back in February. 350 employees represents about 4% of EA's 9,000 employees, so this round of layoffs isn't quite as bad as the one that hit Activision last month. Still, it's further indication of a shaky period for some of the world's biggest publishers.

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