Our latest coverage of playerunknown’s battlegrounds.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, better known as PUBG, will be going free to play on January 12, 2022. The game that kickstarted the battle royale mania will finally embrace the business model that helped propel Fortnite and Apex Legends surpass PUBG's own popularity. This announcement shouldn't be surprising as PUBG has slowly been losing players since its launch in 2017. After all, [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has apparently been renamed to PUBG: Battlegrounds and will be going free-to-play for a limited time from August 10-16. There’s speculation that the free week is a test run to gather feedback on how the community will reach should the popular battle royale shooter ditch it’s $29.99 price tag. “They’ve been trying to go F2P for a while [...]
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A new map called “Karakin” will be “coming soon” to PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds as announced in a recent post on Twitter. The teaser video shows off a new desert-themed map inspired by the sprawling deserts of the Middle East and North Africa. PUBG Corp. has yet to announce a release date for the map. And, while we’re on the subject of [...]
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The Jordanian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has officially banned PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in the country. According to Jordanian news site Roya News, the TRC decided to ban the shooter based on complaints by a large number of citizens and concerned authorities about the game’s negative impact. Roya News also said that the TRC also based their decision on a study by [...]
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Battle Royale games have been dominating the market for well over a year now with PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds propelling the genre to new heights when it first came out in 2017. Since then developers and publishers have been trying to emulate PUBG’s success. Epic Games developed a last man standing mode for Fortnite, Activision came up with Blackout for Call of [...]
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It’s always a good feeling when you take out someone famous in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Unfortunately, there’s really no surefire way to know whether you just took out a popular streamer so you can stick it to them… until now. PUBG Report is a PC app that lets you check if you crushed a streamer on PUBG or if you recently [...]
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It’s roughly been a month since the new Vikendi map rolled out in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and the devs are looking to improve player experience with the latest update. The update mainly focuses on addressing player feedback on the newly released map. Loot distribution throughout Vikendi has been tweaked to balance things out especially when it comes to SMGs. The spawn [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has just received a major update which includes one of the most-awaited features in the game. Update 21 introduces the highly-requested Training Mode. In the new Training Mode, players can test out the entire arsenal of PUBG weapons and vehicles without fear of getting killed. Oddly enough, the Training Mode requires a minimum of five players to enter [...]
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After several rounds of testing and a whole lot of teasing, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is finally ready to roll out their third map, Sanhok, on Friday, July 22nd when Update #15 goes live. Sanhok is a 4x4 jungle-themed map that will offer a faster battle royale experience along with map-exclusive weapons and vehicles. The map’s design is inspired by Southeast-Asian islands [...]
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Bluehole announced today that their hit battle royale game Playerunknown's Battlegrounds hit an epic milestone this week: 400 million total players. The data is broken down as such: 400 million total players 227 million monthly active users 87 million daily active users While Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has been steadily bleeding users (down 50% since January, 2018) on the PC, the game [...]
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