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PUBG is getting a Ruger Mini-14 in next week’s update

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be getting a Ruger Mini-14 in its update next week. When we spoke to Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene at Gamescom last week, he said the next update would have not one but two new weapons, and they’d be in the map instead of in care packages. While it’s …

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PUBG team currently working on a fix for bulletproof water, and plans to patch out the dreaded crouch jump

The tyrannical reign of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ bulletproof water is soon to come to an end, according to Bluehole’s esports program manager Amir ‘am1rtv’ Khair. In a post on Reddit, Khair has revealed what the team are currently working on, and a full ballistics rework is on the cards. This includes …

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South Korean esports outfit Lunatic Hai to field teams for Battlegrounds and CS:GO

Lunatic-Hai, a South Korean esports outfit best known as two-time back-to-back OGN Overwatch Apex winners, has announced in a post on Facebook that they will be fielding teams in CS:GO and PUBG. The announcement was in Korean, but has been translated by Slingshot Esports. In the announcement, Lunatic Hai state: …

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GAMESCOM 2017: Bluehole and Nvidia bring ShadowPlay Highlights to PUBG

At an Nvidia event at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany,the developers of hit game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have revealed an update that’ll integrate with Nvidia’s ShadowPlay Highlights system. The integration is available now, and should kick in the next time you boot up Steam, and will allow players to automatically capture their …

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Bluehole developer reveals WIP look at Battlegrounds’ vaulting system

It’s been two months since Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene took to the stage at E3 to show off vaulting and climbing mechanics for early access smash-hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. These mechanics have proven to be slightly tougher to implement than expected, with the original map not having been designed with vaulting in …

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Team Liquid field star PUBG roster

Team Liquid has entered PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, picking up four well-known players to compete at the forthcoming Gamescom invitational. Team Liquid are well known for their work in League of Legends, Overwatch and Hearthstone, and they join TSM and Cloud 9 as endemic esports organisations throwing down in the forthcoming Gamescom …

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Battlegrounds monthly update includes stealthy changes to your map

PUBG got a fourth monthly update today, and they’ve shown they’re quite the cartographers, making several changes to the map. Not the map you run around on, mind. The map you look at to determine where you’re going. The map used to be delightfully vague, with the community picking their own …

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PUBG is now Steam’s most-played non-Valve title

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundshas now reached 481,291 users at its peak on Steam, creator Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene announced on Twitter (see below). This makes PUBG the most played game on Steam apart from Valve’s own titles, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. The latter is still far ahead though with 1,291,328 peak …

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Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene defends paid cosmetic crates in PUBG monthly update notes

Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has taken to the update patch notes for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ 4th monthly update to defend the team’s inclusion of a crate and key system. “While our intention was and still is to add the full (crate and key) feature to the game when we move into actual …

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has the highest non-Valve peak player count in Steam’s history

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has the highest peak player count out of every game on Steam that isn’t published by Valve. PUBG has slipped into third place on the most played of all time list, leapfrogging Fallout 4’s peak player count of 481,291 just two weeks after it vaulted into fourth …

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