It's been a year since PUBG Mobile graced Android and iOS devices. The game first released in China on February 9 before hitting the rest of the world a month later and is an adaptation of the popular PC game, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. PUBG is short for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds named after game designer Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene who developed PUBG on PC with Korea's PUBG Corp. It was inspired by the 2000 Japanese movie, Battle Royale. While the game is on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, it's PUBG Mobile version that's taken the world by storm. Here's a brief history of what happened in just a single year.
PUBG Mobile launched in China
February 9, 2018: PUBG Corp partners with Tencent to launch PUBG Mobile. Two versions of PUBG on mobile[1] were released in China on February 9. PUBG: Army Attack was developed by Tencent's Timi Studio. It has naval battles (something the PC games does not have) and sports a more arcade-styled aesthetic and feel. The other is PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield developed by Lightspeed and Quantum Studios, another Tencent entity which mirrors the gameplay and look of the PC game closely. Both were made on the Unreal Engine and PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield was released outside of China as PUBG Mobile while PUBG: Army Attack hasn't seen an international release.
PUBG Mobiles comes to India and other countries
March 20, 2018: PUBG Mobile for Android and iOS released internationally on this day[2]. This followed a rather short softlaunch period[3] in Canada and probably had something to do with Fortnite's ascendance on iOS at the time, raking up a million dollars in its first 72 hours[4]. It launched with a single map —...