Apex Legends leaks hint at Steam release finally coming soon Valve \/ Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends could be moving to Steam as soon as this season after more than a year of the battle royale being exclusive to Origin\u2019s game launcher, according to an event-specific charm uncovered by dataminers in Season 5. EA stopped selling newly-released titles on Steam several years ago, instead choosing to run games through their Origin game launcher. Respawn\u2019s battle royale was no different, and has been exclusive on EA\u2019s client since February 2019. Late last year, however, EA senior vice president of player networks Mike Blank teased that some of the publisher\u2019s titles would be moving to Steam sometime in 2020. The big switch-up was planned for spring, he said at the time. Portal 2 charm points to Apex Legends Steam release New leaks uncovered by popular dataminers Shrugtal and Biast12 seem to confirm EA is still on schedule for that target window. In fact, Respawn could already be getting ready for a big in-game event to celebrate the client shift. The Apex Legends leakers revealed what they had found on May 14: an unreleased charm, titled \u201cv_charm_valve_potato\u201d. The ornament seems to reference Valve franchise Portal, and more specifically the game\u2019s AI villain GLaDOs. So this got added in the files, name: “”v_charm_valve_potato”” this could hint to something with valve or maybe steam pic.twitter.com\/zuGnMZ5nmd\u2014 Biast12 (@Biast12) May 14, 2020 There’s also this Portal potato charm. pic.twitter.com\/46fcZHFKyR \u2014 Shrugtal (@shrugtal) May 14, 2020 When will Apex Legends make its Steam debut? The spud in question certainly does seem to be pointing to Portal. For those that have never played Valve\u2019s puzzle-breaking, gravity-defying franchise, GLaDOs is turned into a potato battery mid-way through the series sequel. The timing also fits perfectly with Blank\u2019s spring tease. Season 5 is expected to run from its launch last week on May 12, through the next three months. Considering world events, it would make sense if the move had been delayed slightly. That behind-the-scenes shift would set Apex\u2019s big Steam arrival smack bang in the middle of Summer. This fits Season 5\u2019s run time to near perfection too, considering the battle royale\u2019s seasons last around four months at a time. Unfortunately, there hasn\u2019t been any confirmation \u2014 leaked or official \u2014 in terms of when the swap over will begin. For now, until Respawn, EA, or Valve comment directly, PC players will just have to sit tight and keep using Origin. The major Steam shift isn\u2019t the only thing expected to arrive in Season 5 either: Mirage has been tipped as the next Legend to get a rare Heirloom release, and new debutant Loba will be getting a Twitch skin this month too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends leaks hint at Steam release finally coming soon Valve \/ Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends could be moving to Steam as soon as this season after more than a year of the battle royale being exclusive to Origin\u2019s game launcher, according to an event-specific charm uncovered by dataminers in Season 5. EA stopped selling newly-released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}