PUBG Surpasses Dota 2 For Peak Concurrent Players On Steam

In less than five months, online battle royale shooter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold more than 10 million copies in Early Access . That's crazy. It also recently surpassed 1 million concurrent players on Steam , a feat no non-Valve game has ever accomplished. Further, it is also close to breaking the all-time concurrent player record currently held by Dota 2 (1,291,328 players). __ That's also cr


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the Bluehole-developed and published multiplayer online Battle Royale title that has taken the gaming world by storm, might have some hefty competition in its midst. A mysterious game known as Project X aims to take what PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds does well and elevate it to the next level, surpassing PUBG 's 100-player gameplay on an 8km by 8km map with 400-player battles on an even bigger


The news comes via PLAYERUNKNOWN's (aka Brendan Green, the game's creative director) Twitter account, where it was revealed that today the battle-royale shooter hit 1,342,857 players, healthily beating out Dota 2's previous record-holding figure of 1,295,


The screenshots, which you can check out below, are just a teaser for the game's next big update. Patch notes for this update will be released tomorrow. The screenshots themselves show how foggy weather will impact vision in forests, fields, and in city stre


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been getting a lot of coverage lately, and rightly so. Besides being one of the most popular games on Steam , PUBG will launch on concoles first on Xbox One , and has a new gun on the way. Today, several screenshots showing off the game's upcoming foggy weather mechanic were released and they the impact it's going to have isn't hard to


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds currently does not have a release date, however the game is a part of Steam's Early Access program, and has been since March of 2017. The title is set to be fully released on Windows PC and Xbox One sometime in 2017. The possibility of a PS4 version has been teased a few ti


What's even more bonkers is that all of this relatively came out of nowhere. No one predicted this. Sure, a new Minecraft or Grand Theft Auto will see mega numbers out the gate. But who could have foreseen the battle royale survival shooter and debut project from developer Bluehole selling 10 million copies (and Pubgplayground.com counting) before it even fully releases? Well, the game's director and designer Brendan Greene sure didn't. And Bluehole even less

For those that don’t know: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a third-person battle-royale, last-man-standing shooter from PLAYERUNKNOWN aka Brendan Green, a pioneer of the Battle Royale genre. As the creator of the Battle Royale game-mode found in the ARMA series and H1Z1: King of the Hill, Greene is co-developing the game with the aforementioned Bluehole. And apparently Green has struck gold.


Let me say that again: Bluehole expected within its first year on the market, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds would ship at best 300,000 units. It has already sold 10 million in less than six months. Again, cr


The addition of the fog should strike fear, or excitement, into the hearts of players (depending which side of the gun you're on), especially in first-person-only servers. Though when the fog rolls through it may be even harder to decipher where those silenced SKS shots are coming f


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


Two weeks ago , Bluehole announced that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had sold four million copies in during its first three months. A few days later , the developer revealed that the game had made $100 million in reve

In the game, players start with nothing and must fight to locate weapons and supplies in a battle to be the lone survivor. Described as a "realistic" and "high tension," the game takes place on a large 8×8 km island built in Unreal Engine 4. It’s wildly intense at times, and has created some the best GIFs in video games since its launch.


The new map features a war-ravaged city buried by a sandstorm. If that sounds familiar, that's because it was announced back in May , however this is the first time anyone has been able to see the map itself. You can check out both of the new screenshots at the end of this arti


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available in Early Access on PC. You can read up on the game's popularity, including how the game surpassed Dota 2 in concurrent players on Steam, here . You can also check out some screenshots of the game's newest weapon, the Mini-14, he


"A lot of the [internal team], they really couldn’t believe it, " Green said while speaking to Polygon . "There was a few veterans of the game industry that were [saying], like, ‘No, no. 200,000 [or] 300,000 the first year.’ But then when we hit that first million, there were a lot of smiles around the offi