‘Apex Legends Cellular’ is shutting down after lower than a 12 months

Together with delaying Star Wars Jedi: Survivor , Digital Arts says it is shutting down Apex Legends Cellular lower than a 12 months on iOS and Android. The corporate can be abandoning Battlefield Cellular and Industrial Toys, the studio behind that recreation.

“At Respawn, we purpose to offer gamers with video games which might be persistently excellent,” Respawn Leisure . “Following a robust begin, the content material pipeline for Apex Legends Cellular has begun to fall in need of that bar for high quality, amount, and cadence. It is because of this, after months of working with our growth associate, that we have now made the mutual resolution to sundown our cell recreation.” Tencent and Lightspeed had been engaged on the cell model.

EA has already delisted Apex Cellular (which Apple named the iPhone ) from app shops and halted all in-app purchases with actual cash. The sport will nonetheless be playable for a number of extra months till the servers are switched off on Could 1st at 7PM ET. EA says it will not refund actual cash purchases however means that customers can request refunds from the App Retailer or Play Retailer.

As for , that recreation hadn’t been totally rolled out. EA in choose markets within the fall of 2021. EA says it is nonetheless centered on serving to the Battlefield collection attain its potential (it has ) and supporting , however a cell model is not on the playing cards in the intervening time.

In the meantime, across the identical time EA introduced the top of Apex Legends Cellular, it emerged that the Epic Video games-published Rumbleverse, a professional wrestling-themed battle royale, will . Whereas large gamers like Fortnite, PUBG: Battlegrounds, the PC and console model of Apex Legends and Fall Guys appear to be doing simply high-quality for now, these closures recommend the battle royale bubble is beginning to burst.