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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 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.

PUBG rolls out Sanhok and PGI flavoured visuals on TS

PUBG's new, PUBG Invitational-flavoured interface
Update number 17 landed today on PUBG's test server, introducing several fixes and a few visual tweaks on the game's latest map Sanhok, as well as the PUBG Global Invitational flavoured overhaul of the lobby, BGM and loading screen.

PUBG Corp and Bluehole forbid PUBG related leaks now

Newly announced PUBG gun called the QBZ95
Bluehole's legal goon squad is at it again but their sights are now set on Skin Tracker, which is a site collecting and publishing data mined cosmetic content. The first thing Skin Tracker did? They switched to publishing Fortnite content.

PUBG update promises to tweak the newly added Event Pass

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds banner showing differently customized characters .
It seems that PUBG's community has got what it asked for but not what it deserved, because the newly added Event Pass is here to stay and with an unchanged price, even though PUBG Corp have announced several changes to the system.

PUBG Corp drops lawsuit against Epic Games and Fortnite

Courtroom hammer with Fortnite's Victory Royale sign on it
Victory court royale, am I right? Anyway, it turns out that Greene and Co have retracted their lawsuit against Epic Games in South Korea, where PUBG accused the developer of Fortnite: Battle Royale of stealing their intellectual property.

PUBG offers compensations for false bans and adds battle pass

Some player in PUBG is running around shooting next to a casino
PUBG Corp have announced a battle pass system, in this case called event pass, which will launch along with Sanhok map on 22 June 2018. A day later, Bluehole also announced they will be compensating players wrongfully banned for cheating.

PUBG gets its first Steam discount, losing players much?

Steam digital platform logo, PUBG logo and pot of gold
Greene and Co's decision to offer the first ever Steam discount on PUBG is not as straightforward as you may think and even though PUBG Corp says the reason is the milestone of 50 million sold copies, we all know the reason why it's there.

PUBG's update #15 adding Sanhok map and exclusive weapon

New map for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds called Sanhok
Taking time from their busy schedule of asset flipping and suing Fortnite, PUBG Corp have revealed that PUBG's update #15 will add the new map Sanhok, along with an assault rifle exclusive to the map called QBZ95, which replaces the SCAR-L.