Do you think your Xbox One could use more radical battle
royale gaming?
While the entire world is enjoying battle
royale gaming with the likes of Fortnite and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds on PC and other consoles, one can't help but feel like the Switch has been left in the dust a bit.
Fortnite beat PUBG to the punch in delivering the battle
royale gaming to a console audience, and while PUBG has left Early Access on PC, and released Xbox and mobile editions, it doesn't seem to have turned the tide.
Not exact matches
Some
gaming enthusiast sites have suggested the game could feature a battle
royale mode, similar to the staggeringly popular «PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds,» which has 30 million players on PCs and has sold 3 million copies for the Xbox One.
Kotick claims that Fornite is helping
gaming become more popular and mainstream, and Activision Publishing president Coddy Johnson agrees, stating that the battle
royale mode is «contributing to innovation within the industry.»
They look at Red Dead Redemption 2 after the announcement / rumor of a battle
royale mode which sparks the question: Are we already over-saturating the
gaming market in battle
royale titles?
In addition to the next Call of Duty game continuing the Modern Warfare saga,
Gaming Intel reports that the sequel will feature a full single - player campaign, as well as its own Zombies mode — a first for the subseries — and possibly its own battle
royale mode.
It's an ultra-competitive space with the biggest potential audience in
gaming right now, and you can bet your last unit of in - game currency that a hundred studios are working on their own battle
royale game right now.
Based on the astronomical success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite, the
gaming community at large has assumed that pretty much everyone will soon be working on battle
royale game or mode.
«In a way, battle
royale is kind of like the kid's playground game tag, so it's actually based on a very old real - world game,» said Lewis Ward, research director of
gaming and AR / VR at market research firm IDC.
Battle
royale is currently the hottest genre in
gaming and Niko dubbed 2017 as the first year of battle
royale games.
He says that every year there's a new trend in
gaming, such as battle
royale titles, and that developers just have to wait until the time is right to do an experience that may seem less popular at the moment.
Justin Olivetti (@Sypster): Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds both took the
gaming industry by storm this year, elevating the battle
royale design to be scorchingly hot.
i literally feel like i need to start a riot to stop battle
royale games, we need to save the future
gaming industry from battle
royale games.
Always at the forefront of
gaming trends and selecting game titles based on global popularity, CPL will introduce its first battle
royale edition at Asia GAME Festival featuring
Kotick claims that Fornite is helping
gaming become more popular and mainstream, and Activision Publishing president Coddy Johnson agrees, stating that the battle
royale mode is «contributing to innovation within the industry.»
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The battle
royale is underway the
gaming world, and it could spell big business for the companies providing the hardware.
Part of what allows us to define a year like 2017 as the «year of battle
royale» is the wave of hype and influence surrounding something specific in
gaming.
Epic games dropped a bomb on the
gaming community the other day with the announcement of its massively popular battle
royale, Fortnite Battle
Royale, coming to iOS.
Regardless, we can confirm that the fastest - growing battle
royale game will indeed have its own invitational tournament at
gaming's biggest convention.
This week's KEEMSTAR Fortnite Tournament saw many returning content creators, such as defending champions NICKMERCS and SypherPK, 100 Thieves owner Matthew «Nadeshot» Haag, and OpTic
Gaming content creator Jack «Courage» Dunlop, compete once again in the highly popular battle
royale event.
SteelSeries, makers of various PC
gaming peripherals, have announced an official partnership with battle
royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
NetEase confirmed they would invest RMB 1 billion ($ 160m) setting up an esports
gaming ecosystem for its battle
royale and MOBA games.
That means you can join in on
gaming's biggest phenomenon and jump right into the ultimate battle
royale experience on Xbox One.
I wasn't really playing a lot of games at the convention, but it was nice to take a quick H1Z1 break at the Daybreak booth... I always need to get my battle
royale fix at any
gaming event!
The inherent concept of a 99 vs 1 battle
royale is extremely compelling and has lead to some of my favourite multiplayer
gaming moments of 2017 (more on this later).