Apex Legends dev built his mom a memorial inside the game after she died

An Apex Legends developer turned real grief into a permanent fixture inside the game, and most players will walk right past it. Apex Legends build engineer Tyler Owens has spent five years working on the game behind the scenes, the kind of job that rarely gets a face attached to it. When his mom died, he gave her a permanent address inside the world he helped build, tucked somewhere players had no real reason to look. A letter from his mom, taped to the fridge The tribute sits inside E-District, the cyberpunk-styled map Apex Legends added last year, specifically within the Heights point of interest.