Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale-hero shooter game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in February 2019, for Nintendo Switch in March 2021, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in March 2022. A mobile version of the game designed for touchscreens titled Apex Legends Mobile was released in May 2022 on Android and iOS. The game supports cross-platform play, excluding the aforementioned mobile platforms. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Jiménez-Marín, Gloria, Marta González Madroñal, and Araceli Galiano Coronil. “Social media marketing and gamer events: the case of the launch of apex legends as a model of entrepreneurship.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship, 25 (4S). (2021).
Joseph, Daniel. “Battle pass capitalism.” Journal of Consumer Culture 21, no. 1 (2021): 68-83.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Bernevega, Alexander, and Alex Gekker. “The industry of landlords: Exploring the assetization of the triple-A game.” Games and Culture 17, no. 1 (2022): 47-69.
Hawreliak, Jason, and Amélie Lemieux. “The semiotics of social justice: a multimodal approach to examining social justice issues in videogames.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 41, no. 5 (2020): 723-739.
Johannes, Niklas, Matti Vuorre, Kristoffer Magnusson, and Andrew K. Przybylski. “Time spent playing two online shooters has no measurable effect on aggressive affect.” Collabra: Psychology 8, no. 1 (2022): 34606.