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on April 17, 2026
Recently, the incredibly popular multiplayer shooter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds set the record for most concurrent users on Steam , breaking the streak of the Valve-developed game, Dota 2 . At the time, the Early Access title hit 1,342,857 players, while the MOBA reached 1,295,114. Well, it seems that count is still climbing and has now reached 1,523,179 million concurrent us
If you've never heard of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds __ before, it's essentially a game where you and a bunch of other players are dropped onto a map and forced to kill each other until only one player, or squad, rema
Additionally, on PLAYERUNKNOWN's Twitter account, one of three new vehicles coming to the new shooter have been revealed, which is a new van. The screenshot of the Volkswagen-inspired van can be seen in the tweet be
Recently, we learned that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ' publisher Bluehole only expected the game to sell a mere 200,000 or 300,000 copies in its first year. The game had been released for only five months when it was announced to have sold more than 10 million copies through Steam Early Access.
"No, editing any game files to gain an unfair advantage is against the Rules of Conduct. This includes changing any game configuration files to result in changes that cannot be made via the in-game settings menu."
In case you were wondering, editing a configuration file in your copy of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds could result in getting banned from the game, according to a change that was made on the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds FAQ page.
The update is relatively small, however a notable highlight is that of a Southeast Asian server. In addition to that, there are also a myriad of bugs that have been fixed. Players will not be able to clip through walls in a certain gas station, they will no longer be able to get out of their vehicles when they are blocked in, sniper scope crosshairs won't become blurry if your game is set to certain settings, vehicle tire tracks will now change immediately depending on what terrain you're driving on, and m
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available on PC via Steam Early Access for $29.99 USD. A full release is expected to come sometime in 2018. Further, an Xbox One version (via Xbox Game Preview) is expected to arrive later this y
A screenshot showed that the new gun will be the Mini-14, a semi-automatic rifle. It's unconfirmed whether or not the gun will be exclusive to care packages like some of the other weapons that have been brought into the ga
In other recent and related news, during an interview the aforementioned Brendan Green it was revealed that the game's developer Bluehole only predicted that it would ship 200 - 300K copies of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in the first year. As of September 5th (in less than five months), it has sold over 10 million copies . That's a lot more than 300,000 cop
Yesterday , via Twitter, the Creative Director at Bluehole revealed a first look at a new desert map coming to game soon. Back in June , it was announced that the game had sold over four million cop
This information was first spotted by reddit user Defying , when the question was asked whether it was considered acceptable to edit configuration files. In response to the question, Bluehole responded by stating the following:
I t's currently a part of Steam’s Early Access program, and is set to be fully released on Windows PC and Xbox One sometime in 2017. While a PlayStation 4 version has not been officially announced, it has been teased a few ti
A record many thought unbreakable: has been broken. That's right Dota 2's record for the most concurrent players on Steam has been broken by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. A non-Valve game. A game not even out of Early Acc
Yesterday, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds reached a concurrent player count of over 1 million on Steam. It was not so long ago that the game had officially passed Dota 2 in concurrent players , the first non-Valve game to ever claim the title of most played game on the platf
Meanwhile, the second map is a bit smaller: PUBG patch notes|https://pubgplayground.com/ coming in at 4x4km. Located in a desert city, the map is described as war ravaged in the streets and buried by sandstorms. The south and east areas feature a canyon with a river running through it, which supports the small villages that remain after the city was destroyed. The north area of the map features hillside sl
The details come via Game Informer who relay that the first map is an island on the Adriatic Sea, which was part of the Yugoslavian territories. It is described as having Mediterranean coasts on the south side, dense forests on the north side, and snowy mountains in the center. The island is 8x8km and will feature a variety of architect
The question now is: where does PUGB go from here? Well, when you consider that it only broke the 1 million concurrent player threshold less than eight days ago, which means it grew a very healthy 35% since, it could and should continue to rise. Which poses another question: where does it peak? 1,500,000 seems doable. 2,000,000? Maybe? Who knows. Only time will t