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There's a new map coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds News Jan 16th, 2020

There's a new map coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

Smaller island introduces new mechanics

Hipster Fortnite game Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has sold 10m copies in last 18 months News Dec 17th, 2019

Hipster Fortnite game Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has sold 10m copies in last 18 months

Sales double since 2017 1.0 launch on PC

Battle royale mode drives into Forza Horizon 4 News Dec 12th, 2019

Battle royale mode drives into Forza Horizon 4

It features head to head races

PUBG Corp testing tweaks in battle royale fundamentals News Dec 10th, 2019

PUBG Corp testing tweaks in battle royale fundamentals

New 'Bluehole Mode' aims to stop users camping out in the safe zone

Kongregate snaps up browser-based battle royale game Surviv.io News Dec 6th, 2019

Kongregate snaps up browser-based battle royale game Surviv.io

This is the second acquisition the web games specialist has made this year

PUBG Corp revises Playerunknown's Battlegrounds in-game collectible targets News Nov 26th, 2019

PUBG Corp revises Playerunknown's Battlegrounds in-game collectible targets

Users now need to collect 1.3m DVDs rather than 1.95m

Epic suing former Keywords Studios tester over Fortnite leaks News Nov 13th, 2019

Epic suing former Keywords Studios tester over Fortnite leaks

Now-fired member of staff posted information about Chapter Two of the battle royale title ahead of its launch

It looks like a clans system coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds News Nov 11th, 2019

It looks like a clans system coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

No indication when this will roll out however

Housemarque admits that success is "unlikely" for battle royale title Stormdivers News Apr 17th, 2019

Housemarque admits that success is "unlikely" for battle royale title Stormdivers

It seems that CEO Ilari Kuittinen doesn't have high hopes for the upcoming release

Report: 13 jobs lost at NantG Mobile as Z1 Battle Royale development duties return to Daybreak News Apr 9th, 2019

Report: 13 jobs lost at NantG Mobile as Z1 Battle Royale development duties return to Daybreak

Unclear if NantG-developed mobile editions are still in the works

Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene is done with battle royale News Apr 2nd, 2019

Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene is done with battle royale

Greene will stay with PUBG Corp, but begin work at a new Special Projects division in Amsterdam

Denuvo wants to stop cheaters as well as pirates News Mar 20th, 2019

Denuvo wants to stop cheaters as well as pirates

Irdeto breaks into anti-cheat solutions to combat the rise of esports and battle royale foul play

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings News Mar 7th, 2019

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings

But EA and Respawn's battle royale game is still wildly popular

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days News Mar 4th, 2019

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days

Userbase has doubled in the last, er, fortnight

Almost 11m people played Fortnite to watch DJ Marshmello concert News Feb 22nd, 2019

Almost 11m people played Fortnite to watch DJ Marshmello concert

Tilted Towers was rocking

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