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Islands of Nyne developer calls it quits and removes the price tag from the sci-fi battle royale News Dec 21st, 2018

Islands of Nyne developer calls it quits and removes the price tag from the sci-fi battle royale

“The reality now is we are no longer able to financially support development costs”

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play as battle royale mode rolls out News Dec 7th, 2018

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play as battle royale mode rolls out

Danger Zone offers a highly compressed take on the last-man-standing genre

Epic confirms that Unreal Tournament is no longer in active development News Dec 5th, 2018

Epic confirms that Unreal Tournament is no longer in active development

Team now working on Fortnite

It's official - Fortnite now has 200m players News Nov 27th, 2018

It's official - Fortnite now has 200m players

Rise of 60 per cent in the last five months

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds must be fixed as developers end Fix PUBG scheme.... oh News Nov 20th, 2018

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds must be fixed as developers end Fix PUBG scheme.... oh

Scheme to mend the battle royale title is halted

After years of hard work, NetEase says it's seeing success outside of China Industry Icon Oct 18th, 2018

After years of hard work, NetEase says it's seeing success outside of China

Firm's GM of Strategic Investment and Partnership Simon Zhu talks about the company's expansion beyond MMOs

PUBG Corp faces community backlash having region locked its game News Oct 8th, 2018

PUBG Corp faces community backlash having region locked its game

Users still facing issues

H1Z1 gets a new name and re-formed dev team to become H1: Battle Royale News Sep 25th, 2018

H1Z1 gets a new name and re-formed dev team to become H1: Battle Royale

Daybreak wants to “return the game to its roots as the world’s most competitive BR Game”

78.3m people played Fortnite in August News Sep 21st, 2018

78.3m people played Fortnite in August

Game's biggest month yet

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018 News Sep 17th, 2018

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018

Battle royale title joins addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol as commonly expressed reasons for divorce

INSIGHT: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII could absolutely rule the battle royale genre on PC Interviews & Opinion Sep 14th, 2018

INSIGHT: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII could absolutely rule the battle royale genre on PC

Activision and Treyarch's titles right between Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds strengths meaning there could be a new player in town

Tencent is getting into the battle royale fray with Rings of Elysium News Sep 14th, 2018

Tencent is getting into the battle royale fray with Rings of Elysium

Despite backing both the major players in the genre as it stands

Update: PUBG dips below 1m concurrent players for the first time in twelve months... days after reaching one-year streak News Sep 10th, 2018

Update: PUBG dips below 1m concurrent players for the first time in twelve months... days after reaching one-year streak

One hell of a record

Housemarque's battle royale game Stormdivers is the company's biggest risk yet Feature Sep 3rd, 2018

Housemarque's battle royale game Stormdivers is the company's biggest risk yet

Head of publishing Mikael Haveri tells us why the Finnish studio is getting into the most competitive genre in town after its biggest defeat yet

Just Survive can’t survive - Daybreak Games to axe the original H1Z1 in October News Aug 28th, 2018

Just Survive can’t survive - Daybreak Games to axe the original H1Z1 in October

“The current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain”

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