PUBG Mobile surpasses 100 Million downloads

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PUBG Mobile surpasses 100 Million downloads

San Francisco – March 19th – Tencent and PUBG Corp. have announced that Player Unknown's Battlegrounds Mobile, the mobile version of the massively popular Battle Royale game, is now available in many regions around the world, both on iOS and Android (more regions will be added at a later date).

Calling PUBG a popular game would be an understatement. The famed Battle Royale game has achieved an install base of 100 million on smartphones. To recall, PUBG mobile was launched on March 19, 2018. In the 4 months since launch, the game has garnered 14 million daily active users, excluding those in China, Japan and Korea.

PUBG Mobile comes as a scaled-down version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds that was released for Microsoft Windows back in December last year. The game runs on Unreal Engine 4, and just like its PC version, the mobile version supports 100 players. It also offers in-game voice chat to let gamers chat with their friends. In May, PUBG Mobile surpassed the milestone of 10 million daily active users around the world, excluding China.

Early this month, Tencent Games partnered with Paramount Pictures to bring fresh music, new outfits, and all-new challenges to PUBG Mobile - all based on Mission: Impossible Fallout. The company recently updated PUBG Mobile to version 0.7.0 that brought a War Mode, a faster-paced variation of Arcade mode, as well as Clans and new weapons.

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds has been a huge success on PC, and the PUBG Corporation has partnered with Tencent to create the mobile version of the much-loved multiplayer game. "We chose to work with Tencent and their development studios because of their long-running history of high-quality mobile games and the level of love and support they put into their titles." said Chang Han Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp.

Tencent and PUBG Corp. are working together on building a strong mobile version, and an Android beta test in Canada began on March 15th. On March 16th, the iOS beta test went live in Canada, bringing the game to both mobile platforms. Due to the beta receiving large amounts of positive feedback from players, the game launched today on March 19th.

"We are very excited to launch PUBG Mobile on iOS and Android internationally," said Chen Jerry, Corporate Vice President of Tencent and President of Lightspeed & Quantum Studios Group. "We are working hard to create an authentic PUBG mobile experience that players new and old will love. A lot of work went into controls and optimization to give players a smooth and intuitive experience."

If you can’t play PUBG on your current smartphone, then worry not. Tencent Games has announced PUBG Mobile Lite. The game will work the same as it does on Android devices with the change being in the size of the map and the maximum number of active players. The size of the map is considerably smaller and the maximum number of players on a map is limited to 40 instead of 100. The catch is that PUBG Mobile Lite is available in the Philippines only and as of writing this story, there is no information available on when the lightweight version of the game will launch to other markets.