The Titanfall franchise and Apex Legends share an expansive universe. Many of the legends in Apex have backstories with major links to Titanfall. BY RYAN BRIDGES It’s widely known that Apex Legends takes place in the same universe as the Titanfall franchise. Locations, weapons, and characters that appeared in Titanfall and Titanfall 2 also appear in Apex Legends. However,…
Building the optimistic future of Overwatch — Lead Writer Michael Chu 2017 GDC Blizzard has the company values, one is “thinking globally”, for developers, it’s hard for us to figure out what that means, obviously is thinking about the other teams working around the world. On OW, we have this…
By Tencent CODM development lead designer Translated and summarized by Gigi Geng 1. How do you define the CODM from the very beginning, what’s your expectation for this project? We got CODM’s license（project bidding confirmation)on Feb. 15th, 2016. Because we have the CFM project as a successful predecessor, our internal…
By diehardGG Apex Legends Lore and Titanfall 1 and Titanfall 2 Complete Story. Covering the events before Titanfall 1 through Apex Legends Season 10. Stories from the Outlands. Truly an Apex Experience. Apex Legends Lore includes the Origin of the Apex Games, EverySeason, Ash, Blisk, Octane, Wattson, Crypto, Revenant, Loba,…
By Gigi Geng FPS Development History since 1970s Strictly speaking, FPS: First-person-Shooting Game is a sub-genre of Action Games. Background In the 1970s, PC image processing technology is very different from “Famicom”. All kinds of horizontally-scrolling adventure games became dominating on Atari consoles, and PC games at that time were…
By Dave Aubrey Apex Legends has 28 weapons available in the game spread across seven different categories, not counting April Fools weapon variants or weapons attached to Legend abilities. That is a mean number of guns to juggle, especially if you’re just now entering the game for the first time. So…
By Kaavya Karthikeyan One of the most popular types of video games is the FPS or first-person shooter. According to a global gamer survey held in 2020, the second most popular genre was shooter games, with 50.5 percent of respondents stating they’d played shooter games in the past year. The market for…
It’s not just the RPG genre that delivers excellent storytelling. BY BEN JESSEY The greatest first-person shooters are typically praised because of their core gameplay. Their narratives, on the other hand, aren’t usually discussed. For instance, titles like GoldenEye and Battlefield didn’t revolutionize the genre through storytelling. In fact, many…
From Doom in 1993 to today, a lot has changed when it comes to shooting people in video games. Let’s slog through almost 30 years of blood and guts. By K. Thor Jensen If there’s a single genre that defines the video game, it might be the first-person shooter. Think about it.…
By Nuyen Trang, Tu Linh Kah, Bui Tuan Kha from Vietnam
