Welcome to the Award Winning Steam Charts! Yes, you heard that right! I wrote “Award Winning”! It hasn’t technically won any awards, but since everyone can agree it should have, it seems like it would almost be lying not> to write it. But enough about how bloody brilliant I am, here are the top grossing games on your Steams this week. (more…)
I ll write a blow by blow report of the final , I said. That should be fun , I said. The final match of the third-person perspective competition at the PUBG Global Invitational had too many blows for one man to report, but it turns out you can still tell a good story if you focus on the most important.
When we are in game we are wolves , said Sim Simsn Young Hoon in a press conference after the event. But outside of the game, we are sheep.
After seven months of digital drought, the rains will finally return to Erangel in the next Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds patch. Now live on the test server and due on the main client soon, update #19 adds variants of Erangel and Miramar with the dynamic ‘overcast’ weather which drifts between cloud, fog, and rain. I’m so happy to see that return–and spread–after they were pulled for December’s v1.0 launch. The patch will also bring long-awaited features including bullets penetrating flimsy forearms, the ability to add a map marker on the point you’re looking at, and better colourblind options. But most importantly, rain and fog!
After seven months of digital drought, the rains will finally return to Erangel in the next Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds patch. Now live on the test server and due on the main client soon, update #19 adds variants of Erangel and Miramar with the dynamic ‘overcast’ weather which drifts between cloud, fog, and rain. I’m so happy to see that return–and spread–after they were pulled for December’s v1.0 launch. The patch will also bring long-awaited features including bullets penetrating flimsy forearms, the ability to add a map marker on the point you’re looking at, and better colourblind options. But most importantly, rain and fog!
I spent the past five days watching the Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Global Invitational, looking on as people shoot at each other in showdowns that aren’t officially stag and hen dos gone wrong. But don’t listen to Brendan “Plunk” Greene. PUBG isn’t about winning, it’s about watching people get away with stuff that they shouldn’t and laughing when things go horribly wrong.
Words are ill-equipped to describe how dull this week’s Steam Charts truly are. Read on to see how I combat that. But also, thank goodness there’s at least the interesting feature that Plunkbat has, for the first time since it shot to the top of the charts on its release, dropped to third place. Its year-long grip on the top spot was beginning to waver in recent weeks, increasingly finding itself at #2 in the face of a big new release. Now its weakening dominance has seen it slip another spot down. Could Plunkles be seeing its rule coming to an end?
After the big teams, big bants, and beefy vehicles of last weekend’s Metal Rain, things will take a turn for the serious with the next Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds event mode. Inspired by the PUBG Global Invitational tournament raging over in Berlin, this week’s event will play by the official digital sports rules, where the tingly blue circle moves faster, the red bombing zone is disabled, good weapons are more common, and everyone is locked to the first-person camera. Serious rules for serious gaming. The PGI 2018 event mode starts tonight, and do be sure to wear your serious free PGI outfit while playing.
I’ve been watching the PUBG Global Invitional on the ground in Berlin (yep, it’s even hotter), but before the pro-plunkers went to bat I got the chance to sit down with Playerunknown himself. Playerunknown is also known as Brendan Greene, the lead designer of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. I asked Greene about how PUBG Corp handles player toxicity, and failed to convince him to embrace the objectively best name for his videogame.
After a slapstick competitive debut with 2017’s PUBG Invitational, where some matches stalled with players hiding in the sea or the ‘dangerous’ blue zone, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds today starts its first “major” official tournament. The PUBG Global Invitational [pubwha? -bants ed.]> will bring five days of competition from twenty teams, all scrapping to be the last lads standing and claim their share of a $2 million prize pool. We’ve sent cub reporter Matt to Berlin but, for now, here’s word that it has kicked off and a heads-up that you can get an in-game PGI outfit for free right now.
Today’s forecast for Erangel is spicy with outbreaks of banter and light showers of armoured vehicles, as the ‘Metal Rain’ event mode returned to Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds this morning. Running for three short days, it features eight-player teams and lets us find flare guns to call in supply planes dropping either a family size care package or an armoured UAZ.
As for other newness, remember that everyone can now create Custom Matches on the main client, tinkering with settings or playing Zombie mode. (more…)