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Welcome to the MMOs.com Game of the Year Awards 2017 Edition. This year, we have introduced some new categories and trimmed old ones. We have also continued our Golden Coffee Cup trophy logo. Why not a chalice, you ask? Because chalices are overrated and coffee cups are more practical. Without further ado, I give you our games of the year. [...]
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Lets not kid ourselves here - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS is the butt of many jokes for being buggy, unoptimized, and at times, hard to play - most notably at the start of matches, when all 100 players are running around and looking for weapons to kill each other with. Despite its technical hitches, the people at Bluehole have decided that PUBG is [...]
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PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds has proven to be the breakout sensation in 2017. The game has sold over 26 million copies on PC since entering Early Access back in March. It seems that success has carried over to the Xbox One. The Xbox One version of PUBG hit 1 million copies sold 48 hours after its release on December 12. The initial [...]
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is finally getting an official Chinese release. PUBG has been available to Chinese players since its Early Access launch back in March through Steam, but it had never been official sanctioned by Chinese authorities. Those issues can be put to rest since Tencent has secured the license to publish the game in China. Tencent had been gunning for [...]
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At the Golden Joystick Awards, the world-famous game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took home the PC Game of the Year title, as well as a number of Guinness World Records. Additionally, PUBG also took the Best Multiplayer Game of the Year award. Fastest time to sell 1 Million Units for an Early Access Game Fastest Early Access game to make a gross profit [...]
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You’d have to be living under a rock not to notice PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds record breaking rise to fame. Evidently, PUBG also caught the eye of the Chinese government and they’re none too happy about it. The gaming branch of the China Audio and Video and Numeral Publishing Association released a statement yesterday condemning battle royale games for its excessive blood [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been breaking records and milestones left and right since it’s Steam Early Access launch in March. Apparently, PUBG is also a big hit in Korea, surpassing League of Legends and Overwatch as the most played competitive game in Korean internet cafes. According to VG247 (via Inven and Gametrics), PUBG is dominating the Korean PC bangs scene at [...]
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Last week, the unconventionally-named Battle Royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds recorded nearly 2 million concurrent players, proceeding to break the 2M mark on October 11, and peaking at 2,279,084 concurrent players on Saturday, October 14th. Along with a steadily-growing playerbase, the widely-popular shooter has also seen a rise in cheaters. According to a Tweet by BattlEye, the anti-cheat software has banned [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is continuing its unprecedented rise to the top of the Battle Royale genre, and conversely, the top of the Steam rankings. Steam reports that PUBG reached nearly 2 million concurrent players over the weekend, just a month after breaking the 1M mark last September. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the survival shooter's closest competitor is Valve’s Dota 2. Fortnite is [...]
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We recently covered Fortnite's Battle Royale game mode, with Omer providing a solid 20 minute in-depth look at Fortnite's take on the Battle Royale genre. However, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the current market leader in the genre, was quick to fire some shots at Fortnite. Bluehole VP Chang Han Kim stated "After listening to the growing feedback from our community and reviewing [...]
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