Apex Legends Season 7 debuts on November 4.

Apex Legends hands-on — Season 7’s Olympus map and Trident vehicle bring big changes

Apex Legends is getting a makeover next week as Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment releases a new map dubbed Olympus, a Trident hovercraft that you can use to travel on it, and a new character.

Season 7 is set to start November 4. I played it with a bunch of sharpshooters yesterday via Origin on the PC, and I used my trusty Xbox controller … only to get wiped out in just about every match I played. I’m afraid I’ve gotten rusty at the game, which hit a player base of 70 million people about a year ago.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.