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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG ) is an online multiplayer battle royale game. Each game consists of up to a hundred players who fight each other in order to remain the last man alive.
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PUBG update introduces limb penetration and Erangel changes

Picture of some scenery in PUBG after the latest update
Bluehole and PUBG Corp have rolled out a major update for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, bringing limb penetration system that was announced a while ago, along with optimization and some additional improvements to the original map, Erangel.

PUBG might ditch Event Pass as the first one "wasn't perfect"

Picture of the Sanhok Event Pass in PUBG
PUBG might ditch Event Pass feature in the future as the first iteration was left hungry for success. Recently a representative from PUBG Corp hinted that Event Pass' future in the game is uncertain after a lukewarm community reception.

Brendan Greene says that PUBG cheating is "very low"

A statue of a man holding his face with a PUBG logo in front
Okay, we're not sure whether PUBG Corp locked away Brendan Greene and fed him info on some other PUBG but the man has actually said that once you get down to numbers, cheating in PUBG is in fact "very low". So I guess we're all blind then.

PUBG Corp kick off PUBG Global Invitational with a free skin

PUBG Corp's new PGI flavoured skin called The Sporty Set
PUBG's esports tournament, the PUBG Global Invitational, has kicked off today in the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany, where 20 teams will be competing for the saucy $2 million prize pool. PUBG Corp is celebrating with a skin. Sigh.

PUBG will have a PGI Charity Showdown with $1 million prize pool

Logo for PUBG Global Invitational event
Alongside the PUBG Global Invitational, or PGI in short, Brendan Greene and Co are preparing a Charity Showdown event as well, with streamers like Shroud, Ninja and DrDisRespect joining some pros in competing for a $1 million prize pool.

PUBG PC update #18 adds Sanhok exclusive weapon, vehicle

Newly added PUBG designated marksman rifle called QBU
Brendan Greene and Co have deployed PUBG patch #18 to test servers, featuring a new Sanhok-exclusive designated marksman rifle, new pickup truck Rony, newly added custom matches for everyone and several bug fixes to go with the update.

PUBG's update 17.1 out test servers, guess what it "fixes"

Female player character is aiming her AWM while crouching on top of a hill.
PUBG Corp have rolled out the latest update #17.1 on the test server, promising what they've been promising since forever - palpable performance improvements on both server and client-side, functional anti-cheat methods and bug fixes.

PUBG streamer Shroud and Wadu had some fun with a hacker

Player is walking towards a bike while looking at the sunset in PUBG
PUBG's notorious hacker problem still persists and at this point it seems to have damaged the game irreparably. The boiling point is seemingly reached, as even respected streamers such as Shroud and Wadu just gave up and played with them.

Valve's API unintentionally leaks Steam player numbers

Team Fortress 2 characters sitting around a poker table
Resorting to some serious number crunching and incredibly clever employment of statistical analyses, developer of The End Is Nigh Tyler Glaiel has basically leaked Steam's player numbers for 13,000 most popular games on Valve's platform.

Valve release Steam top selling and top played game lists in 2018

Joseph Seed is preaching to his followers in front of a church they vandalized.
As per usual, Lord Gaben's little helpers have posted the most sold and played Steam games across four categories - Top Sellers, Top New Releases, Top Selling VR Games and Most Simultaneous Players, all of them ranked in four brackets.