The biggest part of surviving in PUBG is knowing when to fight – that, and being aware of your surroundings. If someone is firing at you from a distance, you’re better off running to cover instead of trying to fight. On the flip side, there’s absolutely no point in sniping someone using a gun without … Read more
As soon as you land, you need to hunt for guns and gear to help you survive. Everything can be found on the floor in buildings, so don’t waste your time looking elsewhere. You’ll want to grab essentials as quickly as possible, but luck always plays a part in what you’ll find. Sometimes you’ll find … Read more
Each PUBG game starts with all 100 players piled into a transport plane flying a random path across the map. Deciding when and where to drop is your first big decision and can easily determine whether you’ll last 30 seconds or 30 minutes. Once you jump, you have two choices: dive as fast as you … Read more
So any shooter game has the same goal, right? Well, not necessarily. The idea behind PUBG is survival. Whether that means camping or fighting, that’s your ultimate objective. Outlive everyone else using any means necessary (so to speak, we mean in the game). PUBG does have a ranking system for each season and those who … Read more
Battlegrounds made US$11 million in the first three days of its Windows early access release in March 2017. By the second week of April, the game had sold over one million copies, with a peak player count of 89,000, SuperData Research estimated that the game’s April sales exceeded US$34 million, putting it as one of the top 10 highest … Read more
Battlegrounds received “generally favorable reviews” on all platforms, with the exception of the PlayStation 4 version which received “mixed or average reviews”, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. During both its early access phase and after, the game also surpassed numerous player-count records. Bluehole released statistics for the first four months of release that showed that … Read more
Krafton had looked to expand PUBG beyond the core game as to expand the narrative universe. As part of this, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was quietly rebranded as PUBG Battlegroundsaround July 2021. Starting in 2020, Krafton released a series of live-action documentaries starring Jonathan Frakes that explored the origins of the game’s Battlegrounds. Ahead of the game’s … Read more
To celebrate the game surpassing two million copies sold, Bluehole announced a 2017 Charity Invitational event, inviting 128 players to compete over their official Twitch channel to raise money for the Gamers Outreach Foundation, with Bluehole matching all donations up to US$100,000. The competition ran in early May 2017, and raised at least US$120,000 from … Read more
Greene was part of Microsoft’s press conference during E3 2017 to announce that PUBG would be coming to Xbox One as a timed console exclusive sometime by the end of 2017, using the Xbox Game Preview early access approach to test it. Initially, Greene said that Microsoft was not directly involved in the porting but … Read more
Bluehole used closed alpha and beta periods with about 80,000 players to gauge initial reaction to the gameplay and adjust balance prior to a wider release. Just prior to the early access phase on Steam, Bluehole opened a few servers and invited some popular live streamers of similar games to try it out as to start … Read more