{"id":494548,"date":"2025-11-15T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2187620"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:16:42","slug":"respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Respawn talks Apex Legends&#8217; new hero Mad Maggie and what comes next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By now, you can&#8217;t have missed that Apex Legends is poised to embark on its 12th season of content, known as Defiance, next Tuesday, 8th February. Developer Respawn and publisher EA have been promoting the game ceaselessly in recent weeks, gradually unveiling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-01-31-apex-legends-new-gameplay-trailer-showcases-control-mode-reworked-olympus-map\">new limited-time 9v9 mode<\/a>, as well big changes for the game&#8217;s Olympus map, and, of course, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-01-24-apex-legends-next-hero-is-fuses-one-time-pal-mad-maggie\">mouthy new hero<\/a> in the form of Mad Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Maggie that took the spotlight in a recent developer session for press, with Respawn keen to dive more deeply into the character &#8211; as well as her abilities &#8211; before her official arrival next week. But while her playable debut is near, Maggie has, of course, been in orbit around Apex Legends for quite some time, having first made her mark as a supporting character in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-18-apex-legends-new-hero-is-blow-up-first-ask-questions-later-kinda-guy-fuse\">Fuse&#8217;s introductory cinematic<\/a> back in January last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-03-respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-03-respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you can&#8217;t have missed that Apex Legends is poised to embark on its 12th season of content, known as Defiance, next Tuesday, 8th February. Developer Respawn and publisher EA have been promoting the game ceaselessly in recent weeks, gradually unveiling a new limited-time 9v9 mode, as well big changes for the game&#8217;s Olympus map, and, of course, a mouthy new hero in the form of Mad Maggie. It&#8217;s Maggie that took the spotlight in a recent developer session for press, with Respawn keen to dive more deeply into the character &#8211; as well as her abilities &#8211; before her official arrival next week. But while her playable debut is near, Maggie has, of course, been in orbit around Apex Legends for quite some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Respawn talks Apex Legends&#039; new hero Mad Maggie and what comes next | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By now, you can&#039;t have missed that Apex Legends is poised to embark on its 12th season of content, known as Defiance, next Tuesday, 8th February.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/respawn-talks-apex-legends-new-hero-mad-maggie-and-what-comes-next\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Respawn talks Apex Legends&#039; 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