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Apex Legends was one of the hottest games of 2019, and it continues to prove successful over a year after its launch. We’d say a mobile port seems likely, but for the fact publisher EA has directly confirmed Apex Legends will come to mobile at some time in the future.

In late 2019, EA confirmed that Apex Legends Mobile could be released around the end of 2020. Although we’ve heard nothing about it since then, and we don’t know much in the way of how it’ll play.

Now the game is confirmed to be launching on Nintendo Switch later this year, we thought this would be a great time to talk about the potential mobile release.

Most popular multiplayer games have seen big changes when they’ve been ported over to mobile. PUBG Mobile has a tweaked map and added AI players compared to the main game, and COD Mobile is its own separate entity based on maps, weapons and guns from the popular series.

It’s not clear, then, if Apex Legends Mobile will be a faithful port of the online battle royale game or if it’ll be different in some ways. We don’t know what it’ll be called either, though ‘Apex Legends Mobile’ seems the most obvious choice.

In addition we don’t know whether the developers will opt to use the ‘standard’ controls shooting games use on mobile phones, or possibly try out some new features like Call of Duty: Mobile did with its automatic aim-down-sights.

To help you understand what Apex Legends Mobile is shaping up to be before its release, we’ve compiled everything you need to know as well as a wish-list of what we’d like to see in Apex Legends mobile.

Let’s start with the price: we’d very much expect Apex Legends Mobile to be free.

Apex Legends was a free download on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, with the option to buy cosmetics on the side, so it’d be curious for that to be different for a mobile port. In addition most similar mobile ports like Fortnite, PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile are free, with micro-transactions instead of an up-front payment, so to stay competitive Apex Legends Mobile would probably want to do the same.

As for a release date, that’s the real question mark over Apex Legends Mobile, but we’re expecting it to be after October 1. That’s because EA’s chief executive has previously said it’d be coming in the 2021 fiscal year, which starts in October.

While that date was stated in November 2019, quite a while ago, it’s been stated more recently too, in June by EA’s CEO, so it seems this is still the most likeliest release date.

So an Apex Legends Mobile release date might be a way off, and although we could be surprised with an earlier release, it’s probably best not to get our hopes up.

Valorant is Riot Games’ first-person competitive shooter, Riot is the developer for League of Legends, and they’re breaking away from the MOBA scene to try their hand with the FPS genre. Valorant released on 2 June, 2020. can we expect it to come to mobile devices as well?

Valorant is an intense FPS game, similar to CS:GO, where two teams of five players fight it out in the best-of-24-round matches. The characters in the game feature a wide variety of abilities, augmenting their role in a fight, and each team has an income economy determining what they can and cannot purchase for each round. It would be challenging to transfer a faithful form to mobile devices to keep it as intense and competitive as if it were on a console or PC.

At this time, Valorant is only available on PC, We don’t have any precise details if the company plans to convert the game’s playstyle and setting to Android or iPhone devices. With Valorant being a newly released game, it’s understandable Riot is taking its time to bring it to every platform out there, if it plans to expand it at all.

“While we are exploring other platforms like console and mobile, right now the team is working hard to deliver a top notch experience on PC”
Zielger (Game Director – Valorant)

A Reddit user accidentally discovered mobile controls when he switched to tablet mode.

The same mobile controls were also found in the game files in a folder named as Mobile.

The major platforms included in leaks were Apple’s iOS devices and Android phones, and they should all be getting Valorant at some point as well. The code shown off in the data leak directly mentions these platforms, so they may be the furthest along out of any port of Valorant. Which is to say they’ll be released after the PC version of the game but probably before the console versions.

Valorant, has successfully registered its trademark and copyright in China. Next step will be to submit the game for approval so the game can receive an official release in the country. According To sources, VALORANT’s Chinese title will be called: 「无畏契约」 roughly translated as “Fearless Contract.” We can expect the mobile version to be released in China first and then globally.

You can join Valorant Mobile Discord for further information and news related to the Valorant’s release on mobile devices.

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