It comes as little surprise that the two most widely known and successful FPS franchises would want to jump on the battle
royale trend.
In fact, many games that didn't capitalize on the battle
royale trend in 2017 are working toward making their own battle royale - style mode for 2018.
A number of Chinese developers and publishers have already jumped on the battle
royale trend and have been quick to release their own battle royale title or game mode.
Or are you sick of the battle
royale trend?
Not exact matches
The guys talk about the demands of
trends in games such as battle
royale modes, Ubisoft's ability to nail down the concept of games as a service, and whether or not companies are so intimidated by the impending Red Dead Redemption 2 that they are willing to significantly change their release dates!
And while it's easy to point at the breakaway success of battle
royale games and your typical streamer - bait titles, there are plenty of examples in the industry for high - quality, AAA story - focused titles which still achieved success, meaning Red Dead Redemption 2 focusing on story and solo play is still fitting the «
trends».
For a game that was long in development as a cooperative horde - based shooter, the conspicuous and relatively quick addition of battle
royale to Fortnite seemed to be a move to capitalize on a
trend.
A quick search for «battle
royale» in Arcade Mode's map browser brings up tons of rough drafts, many published just a day or two ago — an indication that this
trend is only just getting started.
I personally don't care for Battle
royale, it's just a new
trend.
Throughout the development of the first State of Decay, and now its sequel, releasing May 22nd, Undead Labs has seen a number of
trends hit it big in the industry, such as the meteoric rise of the battle
royale genre (itself born from zombie survival games such as DayZ).
The Darwin Project is another video game set to launch the popular and
trending battle
royale genre.
The guys talk about the demands of
trends in games such as battle
royale modes, Ubisoft's ability to nail down the concept of games as a service, and whether or not companies are so intimidated by the impending Red Dead Redemption 2 that they are willing to significantly change their release dates!
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.
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
2017's spectacle peaking at over $ 24 million, and it seems Valve hope their spin on battle
royale will help 2018 continue a record - breaking
trend.
Thanks to titles like Epic Games» Fortnite and Bluehole Studio's PlayerUnknown's Battlegroundsdominating news cycles, a major
trend favoring battle
royale titles seems to continue on an upward swing, and Treyarch may be able to dedicate a solid amount of time to put its own unique spin on the genre that outshines Zombies.
The publisher's staff mentioned the company's behaviour involved following up on recent
trends and battle
royale is exactly the top contestant at the moment.
Battle
royale games are the hottest thing around right now, and mobile certainly hasn't escaped that
trend.
Given the current
trend of the battle
royale mode in first person shooter games, I can't help but wonder if EA will decide to implement the last man standing mechanic in the upcoming Battlefield game.
The biggest
trend of 2017 was the success of battle
royale games such as PUBG and Fortnite.
Furthermore, given the
trend that battle
royale games such as Fortnite and PUBG established recently, it is not unlikely that Call of Duty would want to keep up and capitalize on the popularity of the genre.
It seems that battle
royale on the go is the growing
trend these days as the mobile versions of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, developed by Tencent Games, and PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield, previously released in China, are now available for Android devices in Canada.