Cloud9 Interview: Karnage, Cotto, Rolex, and Ian Huston

As his consultancy role with Daybreak SLG Game online guide 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.

Red Dead Redemption 2 arrived earlier this year to a sea of praise, with gamers and critics falling in love with its deep open world and cast of characters. However, things weren't entirely smooth sailing for Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games, particularly after Rockstar's Dan Houser revealed that certain members of the team had been working 100-hour weeks to ensure Red Dead Redemption 2 saw complet

High magnification scopes for weapons in PUBG offer players a significant advantage not only because they enable them to fight at greatest distances, but also because they simply let them see farther. Factor in the scarcity of these attachments, and they become a true prize to find while loot

Some map objects, walls, and windows are also too high up to be seen through or over while in first-person mode, showing that they may have been designed with only the higher third-person camera in mind. Also, sometimes shots in first person don't go quite where the player is looking -- if aiming just above an object, the bullet can hit that object instead of the intended tar

Dead by Daylight proved horror multiplayer games still had legs in 2016, and Friday the 13th: The Game kept the momentum going in 2017. Gun Media's faithful preservation of the Friday the 13th horror aesthetic was met with near-universal praise, and while server issues and a choppy launch dulled the luster of Friday the 13th: The Game a little, it still made its way onto most gamers' playlists at some po

Sprinkling binoculars around the map or offering them as a starting item would help level the playing field somewhat. Binoculars would give scope-less players a chance to spot and avoid distant enemies, yet the value of rare 8x and 15x scopes for long-range sniping would rem

Given the many titles that could have been compelling additions to our Best Multiplayer Games of 2017 list, it should come as no surprise that we believe this may have been the best year in multiplayer gaming since the release of Halo: Combat Evolved . Did we miss any that you would've placed here? Any games you think might surpass the ones on this list in 2018? Let us know in the comments be

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?

Currently referred to as the œR45, the new revolver is a six-shot, desert map replacement for the R1895, chambered for .45 ACP ammo. Unlike the R1895 it replaces, the R45 will not support a suppressor, though you will be able to add a red dot sight to improve your aim. And another differentiation from the R1895 is the use of speed loaders, enabling you to load all six rounds simultaneously, greatly accelerating reload times, putting the R45's reload speed more in line with other PUBG pist

Karnage: Playing video games and becoming a professional esports player takes a lot of hard work and dedication. True, we are not putting in as much physical activity and exercise, but we put in just as much time towards perfecting our craft as the professional athletes do. I think the next step would be to create teams for each region and have them compete against each other on a more regular basis, create a league of some sort, and air it for more fans/view

File this one under "could have been multiplayer game of the year just a few years ago." Ubisoft's For Honor takes multiplayer combat to the extreme, featuring one of the most nuanced and complicated battle systems in the genre, coupled with an eye for historical accuracy that rivals even the Assassin's Creed series. For Honor 's single-player campaign is worth mentioning as well, as it houses some of the best writing and level design in the multiplayer genre and should be a blueprint for those who come after it in 2

After the mod transitioned to ARMA 3 and took-off in earnest, Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) took notice and started development of a battle royale mode for their then upcoming game "Just Survive" (formerly "H1Z1"). In relatively short order, the developer invited Greene to their studio to ask if they could use his mode in the game. Greene agreed and they wound up bringing him onboard the project as a consultant. Just Survive’s battle royale mode would come to be known as "H1Z1: King of the Kill" and helped popularize the fledgling game genre even further.