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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Sets A New Steam Record For Most Concurrent Users

September 19, 2017 Marc Marasigan Comments

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is not only dominating the Battle Royale genre, it’s also dominating Steam and breaking records left and right. The last-man standing shooter broke the record for concurrent players on Steam over the weekend, hitting its all-time peak of 1,342,857 players and surpassing the Dota 2 all-time concurrent player record by nearly 50,000 players. Highest peak player count on [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Details the September Update for Early Access Players

September 11, 2017 Barclay-Kallistra Comments

PUBG has recently published a list of their planned changes for the September Update, and boy is it looking goooood. A new weather effect, town changes, various gun changes, the addition of a new gun, and most importantly of all- The Crossbow's reload speed has been increased by 35% Man, I love the Crossbow. Lets go over some of the [...]

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Sells 10 Million Copies!

September 5, 2017 Barclay-Kallistra Comments

PUBG took the gaming scene by storm, growing exponentially since its launch. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS came to Steam back in March, going through a beta, to sit in early access now - and it is sitting very comfortably in 2nd place on Steam's most played games, as per Steam Charts as of September 6th, 2017. Even now, PUBG is growing, though [...]

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Sells 8M Copies, Xbox Version Coming Soon

August 22, 2017 Michelle K Comments

In a recent press release, Bluehole Studios has just announced that their beloved battle royale shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has sold over 8 million copies. This is another huge milestone for the immensely popular game, which had announced its 2 million copies sold milestone earlier just this May. With over 8 million units sold on Steam, Bluehole has also revealed their [...]

Overwatch Players are Migrating to PUBG

August 20, 2017 Michelle K Comments

According to data gathered by Newzoo, players are now leaving Overwatch for the new battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Numbers cite that 25% of the players that stopped playing Overwatch had switched over to PUBG, meanwhile CS:GO saw 21% of former players switching over to PUBG as well. In its data, Newzoo defined the term "churn rate" as referring to [...]

Tencent Buys Stake In Bluehole, May Publish PUBG In China

August 14, 2017 Erhan Altay Comments

Update: Bluehole has denied these rumors. No investment has been made. Bluehole commented “These reports are not accurate. Tencent didn't make an investment into Bluehole.” Last week, Chinese news sources reported that Tencent had taken a stake in Korean MMO studio Bluehole. According to the report, the Chinese tech giant tried to buyout the privately held Korean firm but was [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Fights Lag Switch Users By Freezing Them In Place

May 16, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds' latest patch is here and, among other additions and changes, it includes a new, unique way of handling those who use lag switches to cheat. You see, if the game detects that you are using a lag switch, it will freeze you in place, unable to move, rotate, or attack other players. The game will make you watch [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Has Sold 2 Million Copies, Overtakes H1Z1: King Of The Kill

May 2, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds is continuing along its path of insane popularity, having recently smashed through the 2 million copies sold milestone. Developer Bluehole made the announcement today and stated that, in celebration of reaching 2 million copies sold, it is matching any donations to Gamers Outreach up to $100,000. In other fun news, PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds started the month off strong by [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Has Sold One Million Copies

April 10, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds has been an instant success since the moment it went live on Steam Early Access on March 23rd. The game made a staggering $11 million in its first 3 days on Steam Early Access and continued to sell copy after copy from there. It has now been 16 days since launch and developer Bluehole has announced that the [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Made $11 Million In Its First 3 Days On Steam Early Access

March 27, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Remember how we reported yesterday that PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds had made its way into the Top 10 games on Steam with over 61,000 concurrent users at the time that we had last updated the article? It ended up peaking at over 67,000 concurrent users and had landed in the #4 spot on Steam. It also ended up being the #1 most [...]

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