Who is PlayerUnknown?īrendan Greene is the man behind the PlayerUnknown moniker, and he actually fell into game development later than most. Let’s delve in and take a look at some of the most noteworthy aspects of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds since its release to Steam Early Access in March 2017. Whether you live and breathe PUBG or you just can’t understand why it is so darn popular, you cannot deny the impact the game has had on our pop culture landscape. Kotaku and Venture Beat report that even huge, AAA franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield are open to the possibility of battle royale modes. Many games have followed in its footsteps and are looking to incorporate elements of the battle royale genre that PUBG brought into the mainstream. Steam Charts indicates that PUBG topped out at over three million concurrent players on Steam in January 2018, and it has continued to see millions of players in the months that followed PUBG currently dominates the gaming landscape like few games ever have.
It did not take long for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG, as it is more commonly known) to take the gaming world by storm.
