PUBG: Battlegrounds
Brendan " PlayerUnknown " Greene , creator of popular battle royale gamePUBG , revealed a mysterious teaser for a newfangled game calledPrologueat The Game Awards 2019 . While often reduce toPUBG , the struggle royale plot ’s full title , PlayerUnknown ’s Battlegrounds , deal the name of its creator , making Greene a well - known figure in the gaming world .
Released in early approach in March 2017,PUBGquickly gained popularity , becoming the first bragging battle royale game . The writing style was then adopted by many others , including the then - comparatively unknownFortnite . In fact , PUBGfelt such an ownership over the literary genre that itattempted to sueFortniteafterFortnite : Battle Royalebegan to steal the spot . Much ofFortnite ’s success overPUBGwas likely due toPUBG ’s lack of polish , whichFortnitecreator Epic Games was able to drive home alongside new content on a regular base . By May 2018,PUBGhad lose 50 % of its playersrelative to its January 2018 count .
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At The Game Awards 2019,GreenerevealedPrologue , a new secret plan from PlayerUnknown Productions ( an experimental studio apartment within the PUBG Corporation ) , with a inadequate teaser dawdler . The trailer point a first - person view of someone hiding in a stormy forest , who begins to panic as they begin to find out the sound of bark dogs . While looker may at first think the trailer is teasing something set in thePUBGuniverse - even a prologue toPUBG , perhaps - aPUBGcommunity manager reveal onRedditthatPrologueis"not a PUBG 2.“Back in April , Greene announce he wasdone with battle royale game , instead move on to explore new mind , and the residential area manager saidPrologueis indeed an original , non - battle royale IP .
Greene announced his changeover away from leadingPUBGdevelopment shortly afterPUBG ’s mediocre PS4 firing . PUBG ’s account is marked with controversy . While the aforementioned sound battle with Epic Games was one of 2018 ’s most infamous manufacture events , the game also present controversy for its lettuce box shop mechanic , its bannings in multiple countries , and its constantly buggy state . Like the PS4 version a year after it , theXbox One translation ofPUBGwas quite badat launching , controlling poorly and with frightful performance . Many ofPUBG ’s issue have been fix over the old age , but these initial failings made an impact .
Despite all of this , PUBGhas still seen spate of overall succeeder . The plot celebrated50 million copies soldin mid-2018 , making it thefifth - best - selling gameever . Greene knows he wo n’t be capable to repair that magic again in his next task , enjoin heexpected to be"s * * * on"for his next secret plan , but he say pee-pee something fresh was more important to him . It ’s not known whenPUBGfans will next get a looking atPrologue , but perhaps Greene will reveal more at some point closer to Microsoft and Sony ’s next - gen console table releases .
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Prologuedoes not yet have a waiver day of the month , but it will belike arrive after the next - gen consoles launch .
Source : PlayerUnknown production
