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PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds has\u00a0sold more than 10 million copies<\/a>.\u00a0One Twitch analytics site<\/a>\u00a0has it overtaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, and other top games in the livestreaming arena. And it even passed Valve\u2019s own Dota 2 on its own Steam platform, hitting\u00a01 million concurrent players for the first time on September 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other games are adding Battle Royale modes. But as we transition from the slow summer season, which Battlegrounds easily ruled as it became an industry phenomenon, we look at what games could cut into its lead \u2014 or knock it out of its top spot.<\/p>\n The first contender is, of course, Destiny 2. Activision and Bungie\u2019s online shooter is thriving in its first weeks on consoles, and it\u2019s coming\u00a0October 24. But some players (a small group, mind you) are already complaining about bumping up to the endgame and running out of things to do, just eight days after its release.<\/p>\n What about Star Wars: Battlefront 2? It promises a\u00a0strong single-player campaign<\/a>to go along with multiplayer starship dogfighting the likes we haven\u2019t seen since 1997\u2019s X-wing vs. TIE Fighter. Could it threaten PUBG?<\/p>\n Or the multiplayer shooter king of them all, Call of Duty?\u00a0With WWII<\/a>, we could see Sledgehammer\u2019s back-to-the-old-school shooter carve into Battlegrounds, too.<\/p>\n I\u2019m looking forward to seeing if Battlegrounds has the legs to take on gaming\u2019s biggest names during its biggest season. If it can hold on to a sizable portion of its audience \u2014 or even grow \u2014 during the noisy fall, then PUBG would\u2019ve made its biggest news yet.<\/p>\n For PC gaming coverage, send news tips to\u00a0Jeff Grubb<\/a>\u00a0and guest post submissions to\u00a0Rowan Kaiser<\/a>. Please be sure to visit our\u00a0PC Gaming Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2014Jason Wilson, GamesBeat managing editor<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Why someone would turn classics like Katamari into text games<\/a><\/p>\n Noah Swartz seems to specialize in abstracting adorable games and distilling them into text adventures. He\u2019s turned colorful ball-roller\u00a0Katamari Damacy and cutesy cat collector Neko Atsume\u00a0into text-only command-line games, which have a curious charm of their own. \u201cThere\u2019s hardly any gameplay in Neko Atsume, all you do is get fish to get more fish,\u201d explained\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n Worlds Adrift maker Bossa Studios raises $10 million for its endless MMO<\/a><\/p>\n London-based Bossa Studios announced that it has raised $10 million in venture funding as it proceeds with the launch of its upcoming massive simulation game Worlds Adrift. Bossa Studios has made big indie titles in the past such as I Am Bread and Surgeon Simulator. European venture investor Atomico led the investment, with participation from\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n Genvid raises $2.5 million and launches interactive livestreaming platform<\/a><\/p>\n Genvid Technologies\u00a0has raised $2.5 million in additional funding, and it has broadly released its technology for interactive streaming of esports broadcasts. The technology is already integrated with Valve\u2019s popular esports shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The software development kit (SDK) will enable developers to make any multiplayer game (esports titles, virtual reality games, and massively multiplayer\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n A guide to systems-based game development<\/a><\/p>\n In my senior year at the University of Michigan, one of my roommates and I had a nightly tradition: playing\u00a0NCAA Football 2005\u00a0(it was 2007). We played every night because we were constantly learning each other\u2019s strategies, adapting, and trying to come up with new ways to surprise each other. One of us would eventually win,\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n I\u2019ve happily spent $70 on PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds microtransactions<\/a><\/p>\n You don\u2019t have to spend any money in PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds to get the full gameplay experience after purchasing it for its $30 price on Steam, but I\u2019ve had a good time doing so. I\u2019ve also had fun making some of my money back through the Steam Marketplace, where I can sell digital items to other\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds hits 1 million concurrent Steam players<\/a><\/p>\n PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds has firmly established itself as the new king of the Steam PC gaming community by regularly having more players than Dota 2 and hitting 1 million concurrent players. At the time of this report, Bluehole\u2019s Battle Royale shooter is at 1.02 million people all simultaneously connected for some last-person-standing action, according to Steam\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n Game Design Deep Dive: The asymmetric multiplayer of Rising Storm 2: Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n Antimatter Games is a studio that was founded from a team that worked as modders and freelancers on the Red Orchestra series with Tripwire Interactive. We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to partner with Tripwire on the first Rising Storm game, a standalone expansion to Red Orchestra 2.\u00a0(via Gamasutra)<\/i><\/p>\n The Making of Fallout New Vegas: How Obsidian\u2019s Cult Sequel Became a Beloved Classic<\/a><\/p>\n If you want to know how relevant Fallout: New Vegas still is today, consider what happened when Obsidian founder Feargus Urquhart and director Josh Sawyer went to a local middle school for a game design competition.\u00a0(via US Gamer)<\/i><\/p>\n Military Shooter Expansion Shows You The Toll Your Battles Take<\/a><\/p>\n Playing as a young man, I run up verdant hills to a church. I\u2019m told of this person\u2019s disdain for local conflict-heavy politics and his love for his community. Then I step on a mine and die. No respawn. That was just the game\u2019s opening.\u00a0(via Kotaku)<\/i><\/p>\n 7 essential mods for XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen<\/a><\/p>\n Now that the new, humungous XCOM 2 expansion pack has had a couple of weeks to bed in, the game\u2019s mod community has been steadily fixing up their tweaks to work with War of the Chosen. Over time, there\u2019ll be more Steam Workshop offerings which take specific advantage of the onslaught of changes WOTC introduces, but right now what I\u2019m interested in is assorted quality of life improvements that remove pointless dead time from the game, offer more tactical detail and generally make the whole shebang slicker and quicker to use.\u00a0(via Rock Paper Shotgun)<\/i><\/p>\n and\u00a0receive this newsletter\u00a0every Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nFrom GamesBeat<\/h2>\n
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