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For years, Electronic Arts and its subsidiaries have churned out console, PC, and great mobile games like the Need for Speed franchise, FIFA, and Apex Legends. Unfortunately, the company has just announced that it's pulling the plug on Apex Legends Mobile, and it's not even a year old. The game will remain playable for the next three months, during which players can engage in their last battles. The company is also ceasing development for Battlefield Mobile in a move that signals mobile FPS games aren't as hot as they used to be.

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Apex Legends Mobile beginner's guide: How to get started

How to find the Apex Legends character that suits your playstyle the best

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Diving headfirst into Apex Legends Mobile without any prior experience and background in battle royales can make you feel like a deer lost in the headlights. It's a bit different than PUBG and Fortnite, where you rely on passives and abilities to gain the upper edge in a match without skewing the overall game balance. Apex Legends Mobile offers a new experience, a well-polished one that goes beyond running and gunning, transforming itself into an adapted hero shooter designed for battle royale gameplay. It even ambitiously tests the best Android phones on the market at the highest FPS and graphics to resemble the experience you'll find on consoles and PC.

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Apex Legends Mobile: 5 tips to help you win the phone battle royale

Level up your gameplay and start winning matches

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Apex Legends Mobile has been available for a little while now and is already taking the world by storm. The game relies heavily on tactics and knowledge of its intricate systems, which can seem daunting if you're new to the game. Once you start playing, Apex Legends Mobile is easy enough to get the hang of, and you can give yourself a headstart by following these five Apex Legends Mobile tips to ensure victory.

These days, some of the most important new smartphone features and performance gains to be found have to do with AI-powered workloads. So it wasn't any surprise when Google and Qualcomm announced last year that they were planning to make the Neural Networks APIs that power those features on Android updateable via Google Play Services — one small part of Android's growing update modularity. At first, we thought those plans might have been abandoned when Google pushed through a series of commits to AOSP reverting changes tied to the feature, but the company now confirms the plans for a Play Store updatable API are still on.

Vivo wowed us at Mobile World Congress this year with its almost bezel-free Apex concept phone. Unlike so many other 2018 smartphones, this one had a screen that got all the way up to the edge without a notch. Now, the concept phone is a real device called the Vivo Nex. Try to control your lust, though. This phone is only launching in China.

We saw a lot of things at Mobile World Congress this year, but one of the wildest was the Vivo Apex. Even if the name isn't familiar, you've probably seen photos of it. This prototype phone was almost entirely screen, and it had a pop-up camera instead of a notch. Now, Vivo appears to be on the verge of launching the phone. The company has sent out invites for an Apex announcement in Shanghai on June 12th.

In-display fingerprint scanners on phones had been prophesied for some time, but few expected relatively unknown Chinese manufacturer Vivo would be the first to release a consumer product to the market. The X20 Plus UD went on sale last month, exclusively in China, for around $565.