Arrest and $5.1 million fine — this is how the Chinese police are fighting the distributors of cheat programs for the “royal battle” of PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUND. On April 25, Chinese authorities detained 15 people on suspicion of creating and selling hacking programs for a popular online action movie.

In February, the PvP shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS faced an outflow of the audience for the first time. Prior to that, the number of PUBG players had been growing continuously for almost a year since the game appeared on Steam Early Access.

The creators of the “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have announced the expansion of the development team of their game project. Next month, a division of PUBG Corp. South Korean publisher Bluehole will open an office in Amsterdam.

The advantage in PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS is not for sale. The creators of the online hit assured that all paid content in the game will remain represented by cosmetic items that do not affect the balance.

The main “battle royale” of modern PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS will be released on mobile platforms. Porting the game will be handled by the developer studio Bluehole Studios together with the Chinese megacorporation Tencent.

The battle royale mode for the Fortnite cooperative shooter from Epic Games has gathered over 20 million unique users. This is slightly more than the number of owners of copies of its competitor and mastermind — the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole.

Fans of the “battle royale” of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds may not wait for the second part in the foreseeable future. Bluehole Studio will develop the project on the principle of “game as a service”.

On October 16, it became known that Mail.Ru The Group will be the publisher of PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS in Russia and the CIS. Whether this will affect the game and what the deal will bring to its participants – we talked with Daria Kot, the producer of the project from the Russian side.

Microsoft is negotiating with Bluehole Studio to extend the exclusive period of the PvP shooter version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for the Xbox One platform amid negotiations on the release of the game on PS4.

The developer of the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole Studio has denied the fact of the purchase of its shares by the Chinese corporation Tencent.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has acquired less than 5% of the shares of Bluehole Studios, which created the popular PvP action game Playerunknowns Battlegrounds.