Four months since it hit Early Access, people are buzzing over PUBG. While the servers may be populated, there’s still a lot of work to be done before the game is ready for mass consumption across the rest of the PC market and the Xbox One in the near future.This week’s patch is another step in that direction to add more to PUBG, with first-person, field of View sliders and other tweaks arriving in that hefty update.
When PUBG does eventually hit a full release, it’s going to be in the form of a game which can be modded further by its community. News which makes creator Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene happy as he explained to CNET that he was hoping that fan efforts would help produce another PUBG success story. “I’ve said this before: I want to find the next PlayerUnknown,” Greene said.
Yup, the first PUBG Invitational will kick off at Gamescom, with a free-for-all brouhaha featuring the cream of the PUBG crop from August 23-26. So definitely not me then.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has managed to earn a rabid following since it hit Steam’s Early Access back in March. PUBG has done gangbuster numbers so far, with over 5.29 million copies sold so far according to Steamspy.
The Battle Royale genre, which is currently dominated by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, is taking a step in the right direction with applications opening up for custom games for those who want to host their very own esports tournaments, as announced last night on the official PUBG forums.
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS, which we shall henceforth call PuBG because it’s not nice to shout at people, is a phenomenon. The Battle-Royale multiplayer game is still in early access. And it's selling like hotcakes.
The biggest game on PC and the streaming community at the moment? Easily PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which has managed to turn its simplistic battleground of carnage and combat into a massive community of players who are always looking to murder you with a frying pan. It’s a PC exclusive, or at least it is for now. Because the first console that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will hit will be the Xbox One.
PUBG's first real test will come with a 1100 man LAN competition at DreamHack Summer 2017.
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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