PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Desert Map Details & New Guns

Perhaps the most contentious pick on this list, Destiny 2 hasn't really been seen as a multiplayer game in the same sense as the rest of the titles in this article. Despite the PvP elements of Bungie's follow-up effort to Destiny remaining as polarizing as ever, though, there's no disputing that Destiny 2 is one of the most successful multiplayer games of the y

Ian Huston: Founded in 2013, Cloud9 has grown to become one of the most recognizable esports organizations in the world. With championships industry-wide, unmatched viewership hours, and extensive benefits packages for players and staff, Cloud9 prides itself on being the best in all categories. 2018 alone has been a huge year for the organization with championship victories at the CSGO Boston Major, Rocket League Season 6 World Championship, Rainbow 6 Dreamhack Montreal, PUBG PGL Bucharest and Hong Kong Invitational, and League of Legends Academy Worlds. Along with this, the London Spitfire claimed the first Overwatch League Grand Finals as the British Hurricane took home a Contenders champions

No list of the year's best multiplayer games would be complete without PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds . It's difficult to express just how successful the game, which started as an early access title on Steam and became a worldwide phenomenon overnight, has truly been, but we will try. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds set a new record for most concurrent Steam users earlier this year, surpassing industry staples like Dota 2 , while also forming the foundation of a new eSport and online streaming sensation, with the title frequently occupying one of the top spots of metrics tracking Twitch's viewership figu

Chumacera is the husk of Miramar's once thriving textile industry. Long abandoned factories overlook a main road lined with residential and commercial buildings. Verticality in both the buildings and terrain make this town an exciting location to loot- high risk, high opportun

As his consultancy role with Daybreak Game Company was coming to a close in 2015, Greene was approached by Chang-han Kim of Bluehole. Kim offered Greene the opportunity to develop a new battle royale-style game. After meeting with Kim at the studio’s South Korean headquarters, Greene was brought on as a creative director. Development for PUBG officially began in early 2016, with game seeing an early-access release in March 2017.

Update: Watch the world premiere desert gameplay trailer for PUBG above. The game releases as a preview game on Xbox One on December 12th and PC, releases in full 1.0 on December 20th. Below is original article with details on Miramar's locations and new guns. The millions upon millions of active players landing, looting and surviving the battle royale action of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ** are intimately familiar with Erangel, the game's base map (and currently, only map). Soon however, as PUBG prepares for its console debut exclusively on the Xbox One family of platforms, so to will a brand new map in all-new environment.This desert map has been teased for months and today its official name was finally revealed: Miramar . Many details of the map and how it'll play different than Erangle are intentionally being held secret so players can experience it and learn live, helping undoubtedly bring it to the top of streaming services like Twitch. Related: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Breaks More Tips Records; Gets Own Company** However, we already know there will be new vehicles and yesterday evening a new weapon was revealed which will be exclusive to Miramar: the Winchester Model 1894. Not to be outdone, PUBG Corp partner Nvidia - who have provided sponsorship and GeForce video cards for several PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds events/tournaments, exclusively debuted another new weapon on their official blog. Details below on the new map, and new weap

The issue of loot boxes has returned once more, with plenty of companies failing to heed the anger of players or even anti-loot box legislation passed by countries . Meanwhile, the return of some of the most beloved intellectual properties has failed to meet the expectations set of them, leading to plenty of disappointment from gam

Despite being in early-access, PUBG is already an overwhelming success. It regularly dethrones League of Legends as the most streamed game on Twitch. It will be seeing a console release on the Xbox One by year’s end, and it seems to have cemented the battle royale arena as a fully-fledged genre in gaming. Major studios are already taking notice, with games like Grand Theft Auto Online and Fortnite adding battle royale game modes of their own. From starting as a mod-of-a-mod to serving as the basis for several major games, the journey this genre has undertaken thus far is already quite incredible. This is really just the beginning though! Who else out there is looking forward to seeing where these games go next?

Video game publishers should have been on their best behavior in 2018, following a previous year that required some embarrassing apologies from game developrs following numerous failures in the eyes of the community. However, 2018 brought with it its own set of pitfalls, and, at several times throughout the year, video game fans have made their feelings clear on the actions of some of the biggest names in the indus