STACK #158 Dec 2017

GAMES FEATURE

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PTesh and Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene

battle royale shooter where 100 players enter and only one emerges victorious. Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene had the idea for the game after creating mods based on the film Battle Royale (2000), and it’s now come to fruition as a fully-developed game. Greene started out as a small-scale photographer, DJ, and graphic designer living in Brazil. Living on welfare payments, his social workers berated him when he told them what he was doing for a living – developing and modding video games. Greene’s work on a battle royale mod for ARMA 2 put him on the radar internationally, and eventually he teamed up with South Korean devs BlueHole Inc. to realise his dream. The game’s been in early access and various forms of beta on the PC gaming platform STEAM for a while now. It’s been gathering a keen and dedicated fanbase while continuing to pique interest around the globe. PUBG (pronounced pub-gee), as it is colloquially known, now has the STEAM record for most concurrent players; over two million worldwide. At one point, one in seven

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is headed to Xbox One this month.Wondering what on Earth it actually is?We’ve got you covered. Words Alesha Kolbe

T he phrase PUBG – or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – is something you’ve probably heard quite a bit recently. The game is one of STEAM’s biggest ever hits, and this month, it’s making its way to Xbox One as a timed exclusive.

For the uninitiated, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a multiplayer online

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