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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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PlayerUnknown talks Fortnite: Battle Royale, says he doesn't want other games to die

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Speaking at the Game Developers Conference recently, Brendan Greene, the man behind the massively popular battle royale title PUBG, reflected on the recent success of Epic's Fortnite and what it all means for the gaming market.

The top per cent best sellers on Steam earned half the Steam's revenue in 2017

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SteamSpy has revealed the top 20 best earners on Steam for 2017. According to the service, they almost earned as much money as the rest of 21000 games on Steam. While not 100 per cent correct, these numbers are the best estimate up to date.

PUBG Event Mode goes live, brings 8 man squads that you can't play with friends

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You want to play PUBG with 7 friends in your squad? Too bad, the game's lobby supports only up to 4 player squads so the remaining 4 in your squad will be randoms. Looks like PUBG Corp continue releasing half finished content.

Last year was Valve's most profitable so far, according to SteamSpy

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Steam saw its most profitable year yet in 2017, according to Sergey Galyonkin, the creator of SteamSpy. He claims that this is in large due to PUBG's massive burst in popularity which contributed to 21 per cent increase in new users.

Fortnite's February revenue outperforms PUBG, Twitch figures pile on more misery

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Epic is coming to get you. It's a scary thought really and now it's perfectly clear why. Namely, Fortnite: Battle Royale has exceeded PUBG's revenue in February by a hefty margin and Twitch figures spell even more trouble for Bluehole.

A new update has landed for PUBG on Xbox One, branded Update 11

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PUBG Corp have deployed a new PUBG patch today bringing new performance optimization, UI quality of life changes, a free cosmetic item, plane population clarification and some bug fixes. Let's dig into it.

PUBG is now available on Android and iOS in India, US and other countries

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Bluehole's massively popular game has landed in mobile devices as well. PUBG Mobile is said to be a ''faithful recreation'' of the PC and Xbox One version by Tencent Games as it includes voice chat and squad commands just like the original.

PUBG breaks 5 million players on Xbox, chicken dinners could've fed New Zealand

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PUBG may not be the most polished title to have graced Microsoft's Xbox One, with the game still trudging along at 30fps on them, but when it comes to numbers, PUBG wipes the floor with everyone and their grandmother.

PUBG Corp finally addresses PUBG performance, emotes reported as quirky

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PUBG Corp may have boasted the latest patch for emotes, player lobbies and other equally unimportant features, but it seems like the company has finally addressed performance issues that have plagued PUBG pretty much from the get go.

PUBG's new patch brings emotes, friends lists, achievements, fixes

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The latest PUBG patch may not bring the changes that players clamoured for, but at least it's a step up from before, when PUBG developers went missing for longer periods than Radamel Falcao. Yeah, we watch football too.