Tag Archives: Battle Royale

Since spinning off Fortnite Battle Royale into a free to play game, Epic Games has been butting heads with cheaters. While in the past we have seen studios like Blizzard and Riot launch lawsuits at cheat creators and distributors, Epic Games has been taking it a step further and serving …

We were all impressed when PUBG soared to the top of Steam's concurrent player charts with 3.2 million players all online at once. However, it looks like Epic's Fortnite Battle Royale is now giving it some serious competition. Over the weekend, Fortnite managed to hit 3.4 million peak concurrent players, …

Epic Games’ Fortnite Battle Royale has started the year off with a bang, topping over 40 million players, 10 million of which have joined within just over one month. That’s not all, as the super-massive hit title has also reached a second milestone of 2 million concurrent users. Fortnite Battle …

Over the course of this year, PUBG has gone on to become the biggest game on Steam, even going as far as to dethrone Dota 2. It looks like this has caught Valve's attention, as the developers behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive appear to be working on their own survival-style battle …

Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has taken the battle royale formula and turned it into a fully-fledged genre, many copies and adaptations have sprung up, one of which has caused much upset throughout developer Bluehole. In turn, PUBG creator has spoken out about copyright in the games industry and the lack of …

It looks like Crytek is looking to give Warface a bit of a resurgence this year with a new Battle Royale mode to compete with the likes of PUBG, Fortnite and H1Z1. Warface initially launched as a free to play shooter in late 2013 on the PC and Xbox 360. …

Earlier this week, Fortnite Battle Royale surpassed 800,000 concurrent players, which unfortunately led to server downtime and brought to light a number of issues. Matchmaking errors, client and server-side performance and packet loss have all been named as specific problems and fortunately, Epic Games is already working on tackling them. …

Fortnite found itself involuntarily in the middle of some controversy last week after the studio behind PUBG blasted the game's Battle Royale mode as a rip-off. Still, this doesn't appear to have deterred players at all, as Fortnite's Battle Royale game mode managed to garner over one million players the …

Last week, Bluehole studios bizarrely started publicly ragging on Epic Games, claiming that the studio created a ‘carbon copy' of PUBG with its new Battle Royale mode for Fortnite. At the time, it was said that Bluehole was contemplating “further action” and today, the studio clarified some of its comments …

After some time in early access, Daybreak Studios is now splitting H1Z1 into two separate games. While H1Z1 initially launched as an open-world zombie survival multiplayer game, it eventually got the Battle Royale game mode, which essentially plays out like the hunger games where a group of players compete to …

The latest hit survival game on the block is Ark: Survival Evolved, which launched back in June and has already surpassed a million sales. Fortunately for everyone that has bought in at this early stage, the development team have been regularly updating the game and keeping in touch with the …