Apex Legends is a first person battle royale game, where players take on the role of various “legend” characters and play in squads to be the last team standing in a sci-fi island setting. Since launching in February 2019, Apex has expanded the world and its characters through new season launches.

During a routine game update, developers “accidentally” left code for data miners to discover, sprinkling teasing clues inside the game about a new Legend, Forge. Fans extracted imagery of key art and files indicating powerful new abilities for the character. As it became apparent that Forge would be the new Legend for Season 4, he began to appear on our social channels, trash-talking favorite Legends as he prepared to enter the game.

The day of our reveal trailer arrived. Forge sat down for an interview to talk about himself and his abilities - but shockingly, the terrifying Revenant appeared and swiftly dispatched our imposter Legend. Online conversation exploded.

We then led players on a digital hunt across the world of Apex as they followed clues that were being reported on our social channels until it was time for the big reveal: an epic YouTube Premiere of Revenants Origin story.

During a routine game update, developers “accidentally” left code for data miners to discover, sprinkling teasing clues inside the game about a new Legend, Forge. Fans extracted imagery of key art and files indicating powerful new abilities for the character. As it became apparent that Forge would be the new Legend for Season 4, he began to appear on our social channels, trash-talking favorite Legends as he prepared to enter the game.

The day of our reveal trailer arrived. Forge sat down for an interview to talk about himself and his abilities - but shockingly, the terrifying Revenant appeared and swiftly dispatched our imposter Legend. Online conversation exploded.

We then led players on a digital hunt across the world of Apex as they followed clues that were being reported on our social channels until it was time for the big reveal: an epic YouTube Premiere of Revenants Origin story.

The day of our reveal trailer arrived. Forge sat down for an interview to talk about himself and his abilities - but shockingly, the terrifying Revenant appeared and swiftly dispatched our imposter Legend. Online conversation exploded.

We then led players on a digital hunt across the world of Apex as they followed clues that were being reported on our social channels until it was time for the big reveal: an epic YouTube Premiere of Revenants Origin story.

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