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TournifyPK Summer Championship Announced: PKR 500,000 Prize Pool!
Prepare your squads for the biggest esports tournament of the summer. TournifyPK is proud to announce the Summer Championship with tournament tracks for PUBG Mobile, Valorant, and Tekken 8.
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Steam Week in Review: AI disclosures enter the discourse again, as Epic CEO calls them 'just as partisan as mandatory political essays'
Valve's mandatory AI disclosures are once again at the centre of the discourse, mostly thanks to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who has long been vocally against them. The debate has been reheated in the same month Epic Games proudly announced it will pivot to "AI first" development on its forthcoming Star Wars and Marvel...
"I was forced to ship the game" - Glen Schofield blames Krafton management for The Callisto Protocol's problems
Glen Schofield, the game-maker best known for co-creating Dead Space, has blamed Korean company Krafton - the owner of PUBG - for the shortcomings of his horror game successor The Callisto Protocol, which it published. Read more
"We have to go a different path" - Krafton thinks PUBG Ded.Net's pulpy gameshow hyperviolence and roguelite twist can make it the next big battle royale
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is arguably one of the most important games to release in the past decade. If H1Z1 built the foundation of the battle royale genre, PUBG certainly shaped it into the form that remains hugely successful today. We would not have seen the battle royale craze of the late 2010s without it, and...
PUBG Game is Permanently Shutting Down
Krafton has officially canceled PUBG: Black Budget, ending development on the extraction shooter before it could reach a full release. The project was intended to expand the PUBG universe beyond its battle royale roots with a first-person PvPvE experience built around repeated expeditions into a mysterious island.
PUBG extraction shooter Black Budget canned less than a year from reveal, after Krafton decide it won't "deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term"
PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter spin-off of Krafton's battle royale, has been cancelled after just under a year of closed alpha testing. Krafton cited a lack of faith that Black Budget's "current direction" would lead to "an experience players could enjoy over the long term" as the reasoning behind their call...
PUBG Extraction Shooter Canceled Less Than A Year After Getting Revealed
Krafton decided against the latest PUBG spin-off
PUBG: Black Budget Cancelled After Internal Project Review
PUBG Studios has officially canceled PUBG: Black Budget, ending development on the extraction‑shooter project after a full internal review. The studio confirmed the decision in a statement to players, explaining that the game’s current direction would not allow them to deliver an experience that could be supported over...
Krafton pulls the plug on another PUBG game, Black Budget, less than a year after it was announced
PUBG publisher Krafton announced today it is ending development of PUBG: Black Budget, the extraction shooter spin-off announced nearly a year ago. Read more
Why do Japanese studios suffer fewer layoffs? Because they have smaller teams and don't pay their execs $30m, says one expert
It's been a pretty grim year for video games. Aside from the "return of Xbox" new CEO Asha Sharma promised awhen taking over, which enacted the announcement of 3,200 layoffs and four studio departures, we've also seen mass layoffs in other studios, too: Bungie, EA, PUBG Productions, Take-Two, Warner Bros., Epic, and ma...
August’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Gossip Harbor, PUBG, Royal Match, Roblox, more
Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to Appmagic data. These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem. There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and...
PUBG's new spin-off game is 'faster, meaner, and more aggressive' with sword hands and 'a little bit of light cannibalism'
PUBG remains one of Steam's most-played games, which makes it all the more surprising that PUBG Studios and publisher Krafton haven't made more attempts to milk it over the years. PUBG: DED NET might be the biggest yank of the udder to date though, revealing an entirely new spin-off roguelite FPS set in the '90s. And i...
PUBG: Ded.Net Is “The ‘90s Put Through A Meat Grinder”
PUBG: Ded.Net was revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live this year, a new shooter with roguelike elements that was introduced to us in spectacular fashion, kicking, screaming, and sliding like a snake down hills in a shower of bullets and explosions. After the reveal, I spoke with creative director Dave Curd about bri...