Tag Archives: PUBG

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: Team from open qualifiers emerge as victors at PUBG third-person Duo’s tournament

‘Suisse my Baguette’ has won the $30,000 grand prize from PUBG’s Gamescom Invitational third-person Duo’s tournament, emerging victorious over professional teams like Cloud9, TSM, and Liquid to clutch a win. Unfortunately, the series was marred by bizarre play, with a circle falling over water that saw a number of teams …

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Xbox at gamescom: Greenberg talks Xbox One X, PUBG exclusivity and togas

Microsoft is winding up for a huge Q4 in 2017. The platform hasn’t looked this energised in years, and seeing Aaron Greenberg in action at gamescom is the very embodiment of that new-found energy. Whether he’s taking selfies with superstars such as Steve Aoki, dressing in a toga for the …

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GAMESCOM 2017: Xbox’s Greenburg talks PUBG, exclusivity, “At this point, everybody is just trying to catch up with this phenomenon”

We spoke to Xbox’s Alan Greenberg at Gamescom, where we were able to talk about the nature of their partnership with PUBG developers Bluehole. Microsoft are taking a lot of the heavy load from Bluehole’s backs, offering support with tech, sales and marketing, with the aim of letting the team …

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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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PUBG releases new set of community rules, issuing 14 commandments for better play

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has announced a new set of rules with yesterday’s monthly update. The new rules laid out are the 14 commandments of PUBG, and if you think the Bluehole team aren’t serious on cracking down, it’s worth bearing that over 50,000 players have already picked up bans from the …

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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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