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  • PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    'PUBG' is the latest free Stadia Pro game

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    04.28.2020

    'Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order,' 'Madden NFL' and 'FIFA' are also coming to the game streaming service.

  • PUBG Corp

    'PUBG' season 5 will have throwable items and weapons

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    10.16.2019

    Season 5 of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is about to get underway, and PUBG Corp has offered some details on what's in store. One of the bigger additions is spike traps, which you can place in the path of an enemy car to pop the tires.

  • PUBG Corp

    'PUBG' cross-platform play arrives on PS4 and Xbox One

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    10.01.2019

    With the latest PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds console patch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players can now square off against one another. As PUBG Corp promised it would do this month, it has enabled cross-platform play for consoles.

  • PUBG Corp

    'PUBG' will support crossplay on PS4 and Xbox One in October

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    08.19.2019

    PUBG Corp has announced console crossplay is coming to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Bringing PS4 and Xbox One players together "will make the matchmaking pool bigger," said PUBG console producer Koosung Jeong during the Inside Xbox stream at Gamescom.

  • PUBG Corp

    'PUBG' update brings destruction and better visuals to the original map

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    07.17.2019

    Erangel, the map in which the battle royale craze truly began in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, is getting a major overhaul for season 4. PUBG Corp said the update brings Erangel in line with more recent maps, adding new buildings, revamping terrain and improving graphics.

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    Nepal’s Supreme Court reverses national ban on ‘PUBG'

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    04.23.2019

    Nepal's Supreme Court has lifted a ban on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Several lawyers petitioned against the block, arguing the constitution affords Nepalis the freedom to play the battle royale and that the government would have to prove the ban is justified. According to The Himalayan Times, the court determined the ban would impact residents' freedoms and as such it couldn't stay in place.

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Nepal bans 'PUBG' over concerns kids are addicted

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    04.11.2019

    Authorities and parents in Nepal are worried kids and teenagers are addicted to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. As such, officials have banned the battle royale game in the Himalayan nation as of today.

  • Respawn Entertainment/EA

    The FTC will hold a public workshop on loot boxes in August

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    04.08.2019

    The Federal Trade Commission pledged in November to investigate loot boxes, and it's set out the timeline for the first steps in the process. It will hold a public workshop on August 7th to look into consumer protection issues linked with them.

  • Respawn Entertainment

    Respawn's 'Apex Legends' battle royale is available now

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    02.04.2019

    As was widely expected, EA-owned Titanfall developer Respawn has launched its free-to-play battle royale game, Apex Legends. The fundamentals are pretty familiar: drop into an enclosed map with teammates, gear up with the best loot you can find and take out all the other teams, all while the play area keeps shrinking. What sets the latest entrant into the genre apart from formidable rivals such as Fortnite, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode is its use of character-specific special abilities.

  • PUBG Corp.

    'PUBG' details its bug-fixing achievements and plans for next year

    by 
    Saqib Shah
    Saqib Shah
    11.20.2018

    PUBG Corp. is ending its bug-squashing "fix PUBG" campaign to focus on new development priorities for the year ahead. "Build stability and quality" are now its "most important value," explains the company in an open letter posted to Steam, ahead of battle royale gameplay and new content.

  • Rockstar Games

    Xbox's Black Friday deals start early for Live Gold members

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    11.15.2018

    Microsoft's Xbox Black Friday sale is kicking off early for Xbox Live Gold members, and you can grab discounts on some of the biggest titles around right now. Red Dead Redemption 2 was only released a few weeks ago, but you can save 10 percent in the sale.

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    The Joker and Harley Quinn are going to wreak havoc in 'PUBG'

    by 
    AJ Dellinger
    AJ Dellinger
    11.06.2018

    The world of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is colliding with the DC Universe. The Joker and Harley Quinn -- the Jared Leto and Margot Robbie versions from Suicide Squad -- will be making an appearance in PUBG as playable character skins that will be available sometime soon.

  • Bluehole

    'PUBG' could be en route to PlayStation 4 this year

    by 
    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    09.19.2018

    Since 2017, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been exclusive to PC and Xbox. That could be changing. The battle royale game may appear on PlayStation 4 soon if a Korean ratings board slip-up (spotted by Eurogamer) is to be believed. Each time I've spoken with PUBG Corp over the past year, whoever I've talked to said that a PlayStation 4 version wasn't in the cards because the team wanted to get the Xbox version up to par with the PC first. It looks like that time may have come.

  • PUBG

    'PUBG Mobile' update adds Sanhok map and new weapons

    by 
    Saqib Shah
    Saqib Shah
    09.14.2018

    PUBG Mobile's recruited 20 million daily active users (outside of Korea, Japan, and China) in just six months. To celebrate, Bluehole is giving gamers a massive update led by the arrival of the Sanhok map. That also means new weapons (Flare Gun, QBZ, Muscle Car and Bulletproof UAZ), along with a new Season Page that shows all your data -- including titles, highest tier reached and more -- and the usual gameplay improvements, this time tweaking the chat system, clan rankings, air drop items, and friends list, among others.

  • Bluehole

    'PUBG’ launch on Xbox brings Sanhok map, but no War Mode

    by 
    David Lumb
    David Lumb
    09.05.2018

    Bluehole celebrated the full launch of PUBG 1.0 out of its preview phase on Xbox One by adding the small map Sanhok, which debuted on PC back in June, and a special Event Pass. Unfortunately, players will have to wait for War Mode, which will only be available on certain weekends and for special events, starting in mid-September.

  • Honor’s Play gaming phone is far from perfect for 'PUBG'

    by 
    Jamie Rigg
    Jamie Rigg
    09.01.2018

    The new Honor Play is business as usual for Huawei's under-brand. A marriage of surprisingly good specs, premium-esque design and a mid-range price tag is Honor's modus operandi, but the Play was created with a specific demographic in mind: The avid mobile gamer. While most phones are more than capable of running games, the Play has a couple of special features that are supposed to give you, the player, an advantage over the competition.

  • PUBG Corporation

    'PUBG' is adding an expansive training mode

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    08.23.2018

    As part of its "Fix PUBG" plan to, well, fix many of the issues in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds like sluggish performance and cheating, PUBG Corporation is adding a training mode to the game. Between five and 20 people can play together in the dedicated two-square-kilometer map, and work on any gameplay aspect they might want to sharpen up on, from parachute landings and driving, to shooting and vaulting.

  • 'PUBG' developer plans three month sprint to 'fix the game'

    by 
    Katrina Filippidis
    Katrina Filippidis
    08.08.2018

    PUBG Corp has unveiled a three month roadmap to improve PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in response to a "fix the game" clarion call from certain pockets of its fanbase. The scheme will cover server performance, anti-cheat solutions, and vows to iron out several bugs and UI inconsistencies.

  • PUBG Corp

    'PUBG Mobile' is getting a Mission: Impossible crossover

    by 
    Katrina Filippidis
    Katrina Filippidis
    08.03.2018

    Thanks to an alliance between Tencent and PUBG Corp, PUBG Mobile players are getting month-long access to themed content inspired by espionage thriller Mission: Impossible — Fallout.

  • Bluehole

    'PUBG' brings fickle weather patterns back to its big maps

    by 
    David Lumb
    David Lumb
    08.01.2018

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has a new patch with quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes and a few notable features to add a bit of realism. Random weather patterns return to the game's first two maps, Erangel and Miramar. The update also enables bullets to penetrate arms and hands, doing more damage if they would hit more vulnerable body parts behind them. In other words, your character's flailing limbs won't block higher-damage headshots anymore.