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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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Top 5 Valorant Teams in Pakistan: 2026 Standings and Power Rankings
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New game digest: PUBG Mobile Light, Aniimo, Petit Planet, Wobbly Life, Monster Hunter and more
Here every Friday you’ll find the latest global releases, game dates, new soft launches and everything in between. This column is sponsored by Kohort. Plug in your MMP and Ktrl will tell you what to scale by this afternoon. 20-minute setup, no engineering required. PUBG Mobile Light (Tencent/Krafton) Pre-registr...
Battle royale goes grunge: there's a new PUBG game and it's set in the '90s
No one is safe from '90s nostalgia, not even battle royale. A new PUBG game was announced today at Gamescom, and it's gone grunge, according to publisher Krafton.Maybe more interestingly, PUBG: Ded.net is also a roguelite, with progression across runs. Take a peek at the announcement trailer below, set to Ministry's "J...
Nvidia tech behind PUBG's genAI team mates will let folks chat to creature-collecting RPG Aniimo's not-Pokemon next year
Alongside releasing Ray Reconstruction for DLSS 4.5, Nvidia have announced that their ACE tech best known for powering PUBG: Battlegrounds' generative AI team mates will be coming to another game early next year. Said game is Aniimo, a creature-catching open-world RPG from Chinese devs Pawprint Studio, which looks to b...
New game digest: Meta’s games app, Century’s new soft launch, PUBG, Gangstar, Tomb Raider, The Traitors, more
Here every Friday you’ll find the latest global releases, game dates, new soft launches and everything in between. This column is sponsored by Kohort. Stop hoping your campaigns pay back. Ktrl forecasts D365 LTV to 94%+ accuracy from day one. Plug in your MMP and see your own predictions free. Pocket (Meta) Met...
July’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Roblox, Gossip Harbor, PUBG Mobile, Pokémon Go, 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 Mobile Light is a lower-footprint version of the battle royale hit
Tencent and Krafton have announced PUBG Mobile Light, a reduced-footprint version of PUBG Mobile. Pre-registration opens August 25, with a full launch targeted for later this year. It appears to be designed to lower the barrier to entry on storage and device requirements – the initial download is around 1GB on A...
PUBG Mobile Tournament Postponed By Severe Food Poisoning
If you're big into esports, you'll probably know that the Esports World Cup is currently on at the moment, an event which hosts esports tournaments for all the biggest games you can think of, ranging from fighting games like Street Fighter 6, to sports games like EA FC 26, all the way to even non-digital sports like Ch...
EA Game Just Shut Down Forever
The Nintendo Switch version of Apex Legends is no longer playable. Apex Legends was originally released in 2019 as a hero shooter-spin on the battle royale genre. It was a massive hit out of the gate, becoming one of the top BRs of all time alongside other mainstays in the genre like Fortnite and PUBG. With Apex Legend...
PUBG is hosting a modding competition, and you could earn a share of $95k
PUBG owner Krafton and modding platform CurseForge have teamed up as part of a new competition, which could see you win a share of $95,000. If the cash incentive isn't enough, your creation will also feature in the PUBG: Playgrounds hub, which is a new repository of UGC (user-generated content) and Fortnite-esque exper...
You might not hear that much about it anymore, but the PUBG series grew its revenue by 25% in the first half of 2026
PUBG, once the biggest multiplayer game on PC, has quietly continued to do very well. Though it may no longer make the headlines, it remains a constant sight in Steam's top five most played games, trading blows with the platform's biggest releases regularly. Read more
PUBG is the original battle royale game and probably still the best
There is absolutely no feeling like being in the last circle in PUBG - scanning the environment, looking for the slightest hint of movement, my heart beating out of my chest - it's something that, it turns out, hasn't changed a jot since the day it launched. PUBG is a time capsule of a game, [...]
PUBG's new AI teammate is somehow more useless than my friends
PUBG's new Ally Duo game mode is a creepy letdown. The battle royale game has a limited-time experience right now that pairs you up with an LLM-powered teammate, Ella, who, on paper, behaves (and chats) like a regular human. It calls out enemy players, shoots at said players, and tells me every five minutes that it's j...