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Apex Legends is creating its own identity.

How Fortnite, Apex Legends, and PUBG appeal to different people

Jeff Grubb July 11, 2019 10:10 AM

Brendan Greene is the creator of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

How Brendan Greene created the PUBG phenomenon and then moved on to something new

Dean Takahashi July 6, 2019 8:45 AM

Fred Marcus (left) and Jordan Mechner at Gamelab.

The DeanBeat: How Jordan Mechner shepherded Prince of Persia across 30 years

Dean Takahashi July 5, 2019 8:00 AM

PUBG Mobile passes 100 million monthly active players, launches season 7 battle pass

Giancarlo Valdes May 16, 2019 12:53 PM

Game for Peace, PUBG Mobile’s replacement in China, earns $14 million in first 3 days on iOS

Giancarlo Valdes May 10, 2019 12:47 PM

Ikon lets players challenge each other in PUBG and League of Legends.

Ikon lets players challenge each other in PUBG and League of Legends

Dean Takahashi April 29, 2019 6:00 AM

Tencent's Ring of Elysium

Steven Ma interview — How Tencent is more than just a big game investor

Dean Takahashi March 26, 2019 7:16 AM

Minh Le is helping Pearl Abyss get the guns right in a new game.

Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le shares how to get the guns right in shooters

Dean Takahashi March 24, 2019 10:25 AM

Kim Chang-han, CEO of Bluehole Studio, and Brendan Greene, creator of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

PlayerUnknown Brendan Greene moves on to a new battleground with special assignment

Dean Takahashi March 13, 2019 9:15 AM

Apex Legends.

Nvidia: RTX GPUs can improve your kill-death ratio in Apex Legends

Jeff Grubb March 7, 2019 12:13 PM

A castle in PUBG's Vikendi map.

PUBG’s best new map is now live on consoles

Jeff Grubb January 22, 2019 1:01 PM

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Ring of Elysium: How Tencent built a different kind of battle royale

VB Staff December 18, 2018 10:29 AM

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive joins the battle royale party.

Counter-Strike: GO gets 18-player battle royale mode

Jeff Grubb December 6, 2018 1:46 PM

Guest

Chinese censorship affects games everywhere — and it’s getting bigger

Joe Dong November 15, 2018 11:11 PM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Xbox Game Pass gets 16 new games, including PUBG

Dean Takahashi November 10, 2018 1:22 PM

PUBG's new Sanhok styles from the new progression pass.

PUBG fixed? New patch addresses the desync problem

Jeff Grubb November 8, 2018 11:42 AM

A satellite view of the new Dihor Otok map.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds art boss on designing 64-square kilometers

Jeff Grubb November 7, 2018 2:46 PM

PUBG Mobile hits $100 million slower than Fortnite because of China

Jeff Grubb October 24, 2018 2:51 PM

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode.

Call of Duty’s Blackout is starting to chip away at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

Jeff Grubb October 16, 2018 5:31 PM

Min-Liang Tan of Razer introduces the Razer Phone 2.

Razer unveils second-generation 120-hertz display smartphone for gamers at $800

Dean Takahashi October 10, 2018 8:02 PM

PUBG Mobile Star Challenge esports event will give out $600,000

Mike Minotti September 24, 2018 11:11 AM

Ring of Elysium is more interesting than Call of Duty’s battle royale

Jeff Grubb September 20, 2018 12:31 PM

Ring of Elysium in action.

Ring of Elysium is the most exciting battle royale launching this fall

Jeff Grubb September 12, 2018 7:00 AM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is getting some snow.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds fans shovel up details of its snowy map

Jeff Grubb September 10, 2018 11:11 AM

PlayerUnknow's Battlegrounds Xbox One controller.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds leaves Xbox Game Preview on September 4

Jeff Grubb August 21, 2018 7:56 AM

PUBG Mobile passes 100 million downloads, celebrates by hiding in a bathroom

Jeff Grubb August 16, 2018 10:41 AM

PUBG is teaming up with Mission Impossible: Fallout.

PUBG Mobile is getting Mission Impossible: Fallout battle royale mission

Dean Takahashi August 2, 2018 11:03 AM

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How Landfall juggles jokes, physics experiments, and commercial games

VB Staff August 2, 2018 4:10 AM

Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, talks about the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

Fortnite helps Xbox revenue jump 39% to $2.29 billion

Jeff Grubb July 19, 2018 1:38 PM

World Series of Esports will start with a PUBG tournament on July 14-15.

ESP Gaming’s newest event is the World Showdown of Esports

Dean Takahashi July 10, 2018 11:00 AM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

PUBG Corp. drops its battle royale lawsuit against Epic and Fortnite

Mike Minotti June 27, 2018 9:10 AM

The Royale Pass in PUBG Mobile.

PUBG Mobile’s progression pass boosts revenue 365%

Jeff Grubb June 26, 2018 3:16 PM

PUBG's new Sanhok styles from the new progression pass.

PUBG’s progression pass improves the game even if it leaves people out

Jeff Grubb June 26, 2018 1:01 PM

PUBG is one game looking to Fortnite to figure out how to adapt its business model.

Analysis

Goodbye, loot boxes! Hello, premium progression passes!

Jeff Grubb June 22, 2018 6:16 AM

I need a better headset -- that's why I've never won a victory royale.

Turtle Beach’s headsets are thriving as part of the Fortnite boom

Jeff Grubb June 21, 2018 10:01 AM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has crossed 10 million daily active users.

PUBG gets its first discount just in time for the third map

Jeff Grubb June 19, 2018 11:14 AM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has crossed 10 million daily active users.

PUBG creator Brendan Greene spells out the year ahead in battle royale

Dean Takahashi June 18, 2018 9:30 AM

Steve Arhancet holds trophy as Team Liquid wins the spring finals for the North American LCS esports tournament.

What Alienware has learned from 10 years of esports

Dean Takahashi June 16, 2018 12:10 PM

Gears of War 5.

Everything Microsoft showed at its E3 2018 press event

Stephanie Chan June 10, 2018 3:42 PM

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets a snowy map this winter

Stephanie Chan June 10, 2018 1:56 PM

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