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Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene "moves forward with a smaller team", as Prologue: Go Wayback! studio struggles to find funding

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the creator of PUBG and Prologue: Go Wayback!, has publicly thanked the team at PlayerUnknown Productions for its "professionalism" as it "move[s] forward with a smaller team" following issues securing additional funding. Read more

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gaming PUBG Mobile

PUBG creator's abandoned survival game Prologue is now free for all, with one final gift

Prologue: Go Wayback might have come to an untimely end, but it will continue to live on for anyone who's interested in trying it. Development on the survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions was officially halted recently due to funding considerations, with the studio continuing to work on its underlying technology...

4 months ago 👁 115
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PUBG now has genAI team mates capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military

PUBG: Battlegrounds – aka Plunkbat – is getting generative AI team mates in the shape of PUBG Ally Duo, which is available now in beta. The new functionality uses Nvidia tech to simulate "autonomous game characters that use AI to perceive, plan, and take action within their environment". They also have spee...

4 months ago 👁 106
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PlayerUnknown's survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds 'without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game'

Normally a game leaving early access would be cause for celebration, but I daresay that's not the case for Prologue: Go Wayback! It left early access on Steam today, but it's also doing so in an unfinished state with no plans for further development.The open world survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions launched i...

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gaming PUBG Mobile

PUBG extraction shooter, Black Budget, gets a date for its second playtest

PUBG Black Budget, the military shooter's answer to Escape from Tarkov, finally has a date for its second alpha playtest, and it's soon. Finding a niche somewhere in between the hard-as-nails EFT and the slightly more sci-fi Arc Raiders, Black Budget is a story-driven extraction FPS that drops you and your squad into t...

4 months ago 👁 94
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Task Bar Hero Will Collect More Player Data Following Cheating Controversy

Task Bar Hero has exploded on Steam. At the time of writing, the idle RPG sits just shy of 500,000 concurrent players, making it the second most-played game on the platform, ahead of Dota 2 and PUBG.

4 months ago 👁 96
gaming PUBG Mobile

Steam $20 Survival Game Is Going Free-to-Keep for Good

A survival game called Prologue: Go Wayback, which launched in Early Access on Steam in November 2025, will soon drop its $20 price tag and become free-to-play for all users on Steam. Prologue: Go Wayback is developed by indie studio PlayerUnknown Productions, founded by Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG.

4 months ago 👁 96
esports PUBG Mobile

The new Fortnite season is a callback to 2019 bringing us Marvel and pirates.

Fortnite was released in July of 2017 by Epic Games with it taking the gaming world by storm with its unique building mechanics, a less violent and more animated look, and simpler game mechanics compared to the other big battle royale of the time, PUBG. It has since had over 650 million downloads and has made more than...

6 months ago 👁 120
esports PUBG Mobile

The new Fortnite season is a callback to 2019 bringing us Marvel and pirates.

Fortnite was released in July of 2017 by Epic Games with it taking the gaming world by storm with its unique building mechanics, a less violent and more animated look, and simpler game mechanics compared to the other big battle royale of the time, PUBG. It has since had over 650 million downloads and has made more than...

6 months ago 👁 49