The Steam Awards have announced the winners of the 2018 round, and in a surprising upset, their Game of the Year award went to PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds. Other nominees for the 2018 Game of the Year award included Monster Hunter: World, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Hitman 2, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
While several big name games from 2018 were not[...]
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The National PUBG League, the premier esports league for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in North America has released the schedule and format for 2019.
PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds may have pioneered the Battle Royale genre and launched a thousand clones, but the game has been plagued with cheaters since its full launch in summer of 2017 Following the cheating kerfuffle, PUBG Corp and developer Bluehole issued several waves of massive bans against cheating players from the game's servers Their efforts to[...]
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This one will probably come as a surprise to you, but despite its popularity, Bluehole's PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds doesn't have a North American esports league However, PUBG Corp will be changing that come January, according to a recent report by Variety.
The National PUBG League or NPL will start its inaugural season in 2019 with a $1[...]
Fortnite has changed a lot of things about the landscape of video games in general, but one of the less-reported side-effects of the ridiculous amounts of popularity for Fortnite: Battle Royale is the tendency for hardcore players to forget that building is not a thing in other games.
The latest patch for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile adds the Miramar desert map, a new progress mission, as well as language-specific chat channels, a new shop, and secret stash.
We've all known this for quite some time now, but research firm Superdata has confirmed the obvious: Fortnite is now the largest free-to-play console game of all time, both in terms of player count as well as earnings, raking in a combined $223 million USD last month alone.
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On the surface, both PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite are rather similar games Both are battle royale multiplayer machines that drop players off on a deserted island in groups of 100 so they can take eachother out in insane free-for-all style There are some key differences – you jump out of a plane in PUBG,[...]
Patch 11 is coming to PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds and it will bring with it a spectator mode to custom games, new loot crates, new weapon skins, and slew of bug fixes The patch will hit the game's PC test servers soon, and after a period of play-testing, will hit live servers within a few days The live[...]
Despite being PUBG's zany cousin/knockoff, Fortnite has gone on to become the most-watched game on Twitch. Part of that is likely down to accessibility and lack of cheaters.
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The Xbox One version of PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds will be getting an update on Friday, which you can check out now in Xbox Game Preview The major change coming with this update is the loss of the starting arena where you spawn at the beginning of a match This is mostly to deal with the extreme[...]
PUBG Corp has announced that they will be wiping the PC leaderboards for PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds today at 6pm PST While you might have been thinking the wipe was due to another round of major cheater bans, the wipe is actually coming because of the game's next multiplayer season.
That new season will "be announced soon" according to[...]
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has hit a whopping 30 million sales this week, but the game is seeing its daily active player base on PC decline.
So we've pulled all the highlights and pulled out the best of the best for you with our GOTY awards. And yes, we put the most important one on top.
Game of the Year – Horizon: Zero Dawn
Best Shooter – PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds
Best RPG – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Action/ Adventure Game – Horizon: Zero Dawn
Best Strategy Game[...]
And now, the moment you've all been relentlessly checking your feeds for: it is time to announce Bleeding Cool's Game of the Year 2017.
It was a pretty stiff competition that mostly came down to three games, PUBG, Destiny 2, and Call of Duty: WWII.
The nominees are:
Prey
Destiny 2
PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Call of Duty: WWII
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
Our judges scores were:
Prey
4
6
6
14
Destiny 2
1
1
5
7
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
3
2
2
7
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
6
5
4
15
Call of Duty: WWII
2
4
1
7
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
5
3
3
11
Yet another tie[...]
But first, time to check out the competition.
The categories and nominees are as follows:
Game of the Year
Cuphead
Destiny 2
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds
Super Mario Odyssey
Horizon Zero Dawn
Best Shooter
Prey
Destiny 2
PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Call of Duty: WWII
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
Best RPG
South Park: Fractured But Whole
NeiR: Automata
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Legend of Zelda, Breath of[...]
There's a smaller sale that includes the big titles like PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds, The Division, and Grand Theft Auto Online.
GOG's sale is mostly focusing on Telltale games today, but also has Battlechasers: Night War, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Absolver, and even the complete Icewind Dale III.
In terms of publisher sales, Square Enix and Blizzard have some decent deals going on.
Blizzard's winter sale nets[...]
Critical Ops Hits 30 Million Downloads, And eSports Prodigy Kevin Chou Joins The Critical Force Team
Finnish game studio Critical Force has just managed to reach two impressive milestones with their mobile eSports game Critical Ops. The first: mobile game
PUBG Corp, the Korean branch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds development, has announced a partnership with Tencent to bring PUBG to China.
The unstoppable juggernaut that is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has succeeded in taking the game to the top of Steam with 2 million concurrent players.