battle royale
Coming soon: PUBG will finally let players block their most hated maps
Mappety map map maps. Soon you can pick your own map in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and won't be stuck in Miramar.
According to PUBG Corp, people...
H1Z1 patch optimizes client and tamps down on overenthusiastic celebrants
For those playing the now-free H1Z1 battle royale, a small Thursday patch might hold a few changes to improve your game experience.
It seems as...
Boss Key owner Cliff Bleszinski claims that Epic Games is poaching his staff
If Radical Heights is not a success, it's the fault of Epic Games, according to Cliff Bleszinski. The head of Boss Key Studios recently...
PUBG Corp’s infringement lawsuit against NetEase may not be completely ridiculous after all
Last week, we wrote about how PUBG Corp is suing NetEase (and NetEase is threatening to sue everyone) over alleged copyright infringement in regard...
MOBAs provide a template for the future of the battle royale genre
So where will battle royale games be in another five years? We don't know just yet, but from a purely business standpoint we can...
Portable forts and a replay function parachute into Fortnite
Just when you thought that Fortnite's battle royale couldn't get any crazier, Epic Games keeps upping the ante with ideas like Port-a-Fort.
That's right: There...
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
NetEase threatens to sue everybody who cloned its battle royale clones
On Friday, we covered PUBG Corp's lawsuit against NetEase, which alleges that the Chinese company has infringed PUBG's copyrights in its overt battle royale...
PAX East 2018: Frostkeep’s MMO Rend has come a very long way in just one year
My experience with Rend last year felt a bit like stepping into a faerie circle and slipping into another world, sneaking up to a...
Having given up on LawBreakers, Boss Key is launching battle royale game Radical Heights tomorrow
Last week, we wrote about the de facto maintenance-moding of LawBreakers, as Boss Key admitted the game wasn't making money, not even enough to...
Crossout’s battle station wagons jump on the battle royale bandwagon
Here at the esteemed Massively OP offices, where every day is a silver-lined dream aboard a gold-lined yacht, we have established a policy of...
PUBG Corp sues Netease for cloning PUBG in Knives Out and Rules of Survival
Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...
Rumor: Ubisoft and Massive are building a battle royale game
According to a report on Gamereactor, Ubisoft would like a piece o' that PUBG and Fortnite action.
The publication claims to have an "anonymous source...
Battle royale Darwin Project adds a duo mode
Will we ever dig to the bottom of the pit of battle royale titles? Probably not, but here's another one that's been in development...
Path of Exile mulls over reviving its popular April Fools’ Day Battle Royale mode
For this year's April Fools' Day joke, Path of Exile announced the creation of a Battle Royale mode... and then further surprised players by...
Fortnite’s sky is falling (but its iOS version is rising)
If you were to believe Fortnite players, the end of the world is coming -- and the sky is literally falling.
A mysterious comet in...
Overwatch downplays battle royale potential, introduces Overwatch Archives events
Is Overwatch getting a battle royale mode? Probably not. Blizzard Game Director Jeff Kaplan told Kotaku that the team has actually seriously considered wedging...
SuperData’s February 2018 revenue summary shows Fortnite’s dominance
Fortnite isn't just a hit for Epic: It's a hit for the whole industry. That's according to SuperData's latest report, which ranks PC, console,...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games
So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...
