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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 Corp and StarLadder to partner up for a PUBG pro league

Some person is running around in a red shirt with a gun in her hand

PUBG may not still be eSports ready but that's not going to stop PUBG Corp and StarLadder from kicking off additional professional eSports leagues. The new league will be called PUBG Europe League and is set to commence in January 2019.

Over 13 million cheaters have been banned from PUBG so far

PUBG Corp appear to have been more transparent with their Korean players as they kept posting the numbers of banned accounts since 16 June 2017. With great cheater numbers come great ban numbers, totaling at over 13 million so far.

PUBG has another crack at Desert Knights event on Xbox One

PUBG Corp have announced they'll be repeating the Desert Knights event on Xbox One this weekend, although it will feature several slight changes such as increased player count, group queueing with 8 man squads and a few other adjustments.

Tencent and PUBG Corp to hold a $600K PUBG Mobile tournament

PUBG Corp and Tencent Games have announced a mobile esports tournament dubbed the PUBG Mobile Star Challenge. It starts on 29 September 2018 in Kiev, Ukraine, and ends in Dubai, UAE, at the end of 2018, with a hefty $600K prize pool.

PUBG to you choose your map, report button now works

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: aerial view of a map, with roads and a river. Mountains in the backdrop.

PUBG has a new patch on the test servers. Players will be able to choose which map they want to play in the future. The in-game report button now also works. Both of these things should have been in the game in the first place maybe?

PUBG's new desert map available for testing, patch also live

During the last night's Game Awards 2017, Bluehole announced that a PC version of PUBG will be available on 20 December. The new desert map is now available for testing on the game's servers. A big patch was deployed alongside Miramar.

PUBG test servers open for vaulting, climbing and new ballistics

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds map Military base Sunset

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will soon have a new update for PC player to test out, but only for one day. The main additions are vaulting, climbing and the overhauled ballistics system. The MOA of the weapons has also been tweaked.

PUBG gets an update for week 16 and full launch plans

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds banner showing differently customized characters .

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds week 16 update goes live today. The patch first went onto the Test Servers on Wednesday, 12 July 2017. The dev team also shared their plans for a full launch recently. Time to say goodbye to Early Access?

PUBG balances loot drops and adds new assault rifle

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is due for another regular monthly update. This month's patch brings a new assault rifle to the battle royale title and some bug squashing in the name of fair and balanced loot distribution and spawn rates.

Brendan Greene responds to PUBG asset flipping accusations

Two players are running away from an explosion in PUBG.

Speaking in an interview on this year's E3, Brendan Greene touched on the recent accusations of PUBG being an asset flip for reasons of using store-purchased assets on all of the game's maps. Greene jokingly suggested he wants to kill them.