If you haven’t been playing, most of your friends probably have been.
Earlier this year, PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds was released online, and it promptly took the world by storm.
Inspired by the likes of Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, it involves up 100 players being parachuted on to an island, and forced to kill-or-be-killed for the weapons, tools and rations to be found. There are safe zones available, but they continue to shrink in size over the course of the game, until the last team (or individual, because this is war and nobody can be trusted) is left standing.
Clip via PCGamer
Well, since then, PUBG (the short hand all us cool kids are using) has quickly become THE most played video-game on the Steam platform, reaching a high of over 2.2 million simultaneous players at once.
And what you may not realise is that the game was developed by Donegal native Brendan Greene.
In the few months since the game was released, here are the just some of the Guinness World Records it has broken:
- The fastest time to sell 1 million units for a Steam Early Access game: just 16 days
- The fastest game on Steam Early Access to gross $100m: just 79 days
- The first ever video-game to reach two million concurrent players
- The most concurrent players for a Steam Early Access game
- The most concurrent players on Steam for a non-Valve videogame
- The first non-Valve videogame to be the most played game on Steam
And now, despite still being technically not a “full release” game – that won’t kick in on PC and Xbox until December – it still managed to win PC Game of the Year and Multiplayer Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks awards.
It was beyond humbling to accept both PC GOTY & Multiplayer GOTY on behalf of the @PUBATTLEGROUNDS team at the @GoldenJoysticks tonight!
Thank you for voting and once again for your continued support <3 pic.twitter.com/PkrZEaSJGc
— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) November 17, 2017
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