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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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Gabe Newell says PUBG is Steam's third top earner, ever

PUBG's immense popularity has recently been underlined by Valve's overlord Gabe Newell, whose latest card throw included a game nobody cares about and placing PUBG on third spot of Steam's all-time earners.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds receives a roadmap for 2018

A picture of a PUBG character and ''PUBG ROADMAP 2018'' is written in white letters over it.

Players have been asking about PUBG's next roadmap for months now and Brendan Greene has finally answered. The roadmap for the entire year has been laid out for the game. Apparently they will also add a SCAR-H to the game.

PUBG cheat detection goes crazy and dishes out random bans, PUBG Corp apologises

Cheating in PUBG has long reached alarming levels but PUBG Corp's latest handling of the issue seems to have backfired somewhat seriously. Namely, a large number of PUBG players have now been branded cheaters and kicked off servers.

Fortnite's Twitch figures skyrocket, leaves PUBG and LoL in the dust

Dark clad creature looking over a heavy tree root

Epic's put a lot of effort into Fortnite: Battle Royale and the results are showing. Namely, the game's latest Twitch numbers mean that Fortnite has wiped the floor with PUBG and League of Legends. LOL.

PUBG is introducing a vehicle and limb penetration system

Spoof of the promotional image for PUBG showing a character armoured with four frying pans.

If you're not one of those pesky PUBG hackers, you might find landing headshots a challenge from time to time. Bluehole are booting up their test servers this week where they will enable you to shoot enemies' heads off through their arms.

FIFA 18 rules weekly UK chart, Grand Theft Auto V stays second

It seems like EA Sports' Fifa 18 isn't planning on leaving anytime yet, with the game establishing a dominion over UK charts ever since it launched, it seems. "Old man" GTA V keeps punching above its weight coming in second.

PUBG gets Xbox update, adds Game DVR auto highlight recording

Xbox users sure have lots to look forward to, as PUBG Corp's latest Xbox update packs lots of improvements for their survival shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. The devs added automatic highlight recording and a host of other fixes.

Monster Hunter: World tops charts in US and Japan

Several men with scifi weaponry hunting a dragon

You've got to give it to Capcom - their Monster Hunter: World launched less than a month ago and still destroyed charts both in the US and Japan, climbing to fourth spot in the UK. US spending hit as much as $1 billion dollars in January.

PUBG gets two new crates, test server patch and a puppy

Vandalised PUBG poster complaining about hackers.

Okay we lied about the puppy, but PUBG really is getting two retro themed crates, test server patch and a handful of well wishes and apologies from the developer. Excellent, because I could use those apologies against cheaters, right?

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds sheds 600K daily peak concurrent users in February

Well, it's safe to say PUBG's downward slope is slowly turning into a Steam trend, a concerning thought indeed. Don't buy into the headlines though - if PUBG is a game that's going to die soon, then other titles already on the market don't even qualify as having been born yet.