Our latest coverage of PUBG Corp..
Over the past few weeks, several big-name video game companies announced their decisions to withdraw from this weekend’s PAX East conference in Boston due to the looming threat of the COVID-19 virus. The growing list of companies that have decided to skip the convention include Capcom, Square Enix, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and more recently, CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corp. [...]
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PUBG Corp. has hired Sledgehammer Games and EA Visceral Games’ Glen Schofield to be the CEO of their new game development studio, Striking Distance. Schofield has a few notches on his belt when it comes to heading development studios, having co-founded Sledgehammer Games and having previously served as vice-president and general manager of EA Visceral Games. “As a company, we [...]
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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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Last week, PUBG Corp. filed a copyright infringement suit against NetEase and their Rules of Survival and Knives Out Battle Royale games. According to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District Court of California, NetEase allegedly “cloned” PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and released Rules of Survival for mobile devices “at or below cost for the purpose of gaining market share before PUBG [...]
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