PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS $11 MILLION – FIRST THREE DAYS
Bluehole and Brendan Greene (aka PLAYERUNKNOWN) are proud to release details from their successful launch of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS on Steam Early Access. Currently holding strong as the number one seller on Steam, the game has earned more than eleven million dollars in revenue in just three days with more than 67,000 concurrent users (simultaneous active players).
As the first standalone Battle Royale experience from the creator of the genre, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is number one on Twitch’s charts, boasting more than 150,000 viewers at a given time. The game has been featured on more than 3,600 streams since its launch on March 23, 2017.
A last-man-standing shooter, PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS drops players on a realistic 8 x 8 km island with visuals that show off Unreal Engine 4’s capabilities. Starting with nothing, they must fight to locate weapons, vehicles and supplies as they strive to be the lone survivor.
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is available now on Steam Early Access. To learn more about PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS, please visit www.playbattlegrounds.com, ‘Like’ it on Facebook, and follow its development on Twitter @PUBATTLEGROUNDS for all the latest updates and news from the team.
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS – Not Just a Game. This is Battle Royale.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is an upcoming massively multiplayer online survival video game developed and published by Bluehole Inc. for Microsoft Windows.
The concept of the game began when lead designer Brendan Greene, under the alias of Playerunknown, began working as a modder on Arma 2, creating a custom gamemode now known as “battle royale”. The gamemode later shot off into other standalone games, such as Day Z and H1Z1: King of the Kill. Greene then made the decision to make his own standalone battle royale game after seeing the commercial success of the genre. The game was released on Steam’s early access program in March 2017.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is a competitive survival last man standing shooter. Up to 100 Players are dropped into a fully open 8x8km island, where they must fight each other until only one player/team remains alive. Players begin the match without any items, but can search to find weapons, vehicles, and gear. In order to speed up the match, the battlefield will begin to shrink, forcing players to encounter other hostile players while trying to stay within the shrinking safe area. Apart from solo matches, the game also allows for cooperative play for players to team up into groups of 2 or 4, which is it’s own separate mode.
