Category: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds News

PUBG Corp. has announced that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continues to rock the game world with its success. At the recently held Golden Joystick Awards, the company announced that the game had broken not one, not two, but SEVEN Guinness World Records including the “Most Actively Played Video Game on Steam” and “Fastest Time for a Steam Early Access Game to Gross $100M in Revenue” as well as five others.

The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds test realm has been updated with the highly anticipated 1.0 patch that brings the vaulting mechanics and improved vehicle physics into the game. As a result of the patch deployment, several Reddit users have been busy datamining for possible content coming in the future. Among other things, the desert map that has been teased recently seems to be nearly complete. In addition, a jet ski vehicle has also been found.

The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Twitter account has sad news for players hoping to try out the vaulting update. The test server patch has been delayed yet again. “When the test servers are deployed, we will be running them for a long time and it’s crucial that they operate in a stable environment. Therefore, we feel that we have to delay the first test schedule for PC 1.0 to allow for a smooth testing of the new features and content”.

If you’ve got an XBox One and have been feeling left out of all the furor around PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, worry not! In a new post on the XBox Wire today, the team let everyone know that PUBG is coming to XBox One via XBox Game Preview on December 12th. Yes. Yes it’s true. A big game is getting bigger.

According to BattlEye, between 6,000 and 13,000 players are being banned from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds per day. Since launch, 322,000 players have been booted from the game for any number of reasons from using third party programs to exploits and more. The BattlEye Twitter post says that “the vast majority is from China”. In addition, the company claims the number of banned players is “more than twice as many as posted by PUBG just a month ago”.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds saw another amazing number of people playing over the weekend. Nearly 2 million concurrent players were on hand at one point (to be precise, 1,963,080) easily wiping out DOTA 2 in second place with about 700,000.

In a new interview at Bloomberg Technology, Brendon Green, creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Bluehole Chairman Chang Byung-gyu have offered a couple of pretty interesting little nuggets of information including the fact that Bluehole is in talks with Sony about bringing PUBG to PlayStation 4. Up to now, the only console that had managed such a feat was Microsoft for XBox One. The inclusion of PS4 could make the juggernaut title and even bigger juggernaut.

BlueHole is eying Fortnite’s upcoming Battle Royale mode for what it perceives as too many similarities to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The company is looking at the game play style as well as Epic Games using PUBG in its promotional material and in communication with press and its community. According to BH CEO Chang Han Kim, “The PUBG community has and continues to provide evidence of the many similarities as we contemplate further action”.

DOTA 2 has long held the Steam record for the most players taking part in the game at the same time. At least it did through last Saturday when the juggernaut called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds blew by the old record by nearly 50,000 players. 1,342,857 players were online at the same time, easily outpacing DOTA 2’s 1,295,114. The big announcement was made on the game’s official Twitter account on Saturday.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Creative Director Brendan Greene sent out a tweet late yesterday afternoon to let folks know that BattlEye is working as intended. Since the game’s launch in March, over 150,000 cheaters have been banned including over eight thousand in the 24-hours preceding the announcement.