Aaron Boulding

Aaron Boulding



16 Dec

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways. What makes PUBG special is how real it is—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our Getting a Sense series, we’re releasing an outside interview with a different PUBG dev every month, highlighting a unique look at a specific facet of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the incredible processes that make PUBG a crisp, true to life experience.

 

Four senses down, one to go. We’ve talked about ...

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19 Nov

Getting a Sense of PUBG Pt.4

Keep an ear to the ground to hear what’s coming.

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways. What makes PUBG special is how real it is—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our new Human Factors series, we’re releasing an outside interview with a different PUBG dev every month, highlighting a unique look at a specific facet of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the incredible processes that...

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13 Oct

Getting a Sense of PUBG Pt. 3

How we end up at locations so realistic, you can practically smell them.

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our Getting a Sense of PUBG series, we’re highlighting specific facets of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the delectable processes that make PUBG a refreshing, true-to-life experience.


Mercifully, we can’t actually smell...

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22 Sep

Getting a Sense of PUBG Pt. 2

What you see is what you get.

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our Getting a Sense of PUBG series, we’re highlighting specific facets of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the delectable processes that make PUBG a refreshing, true-to-life experience.


Making things look believable in video games is almost always an enormous chall...

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08 Sep

PUBG Corporation is actively monitoring the situation around the recent bans of PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik and PUBG MOBILE Lite in India. It has seen an overwhelming amount of support for the game from the country’s player base and would like to thank the community for their passion and enthusiasm.

PUBG Corporation fully understands and respects the measures taken by the government as the privacy and security of player data is a top priority for the company. It hopes to work hand-in-hand with the Indian government to find a solution that will allow gamers to once again drop into the battlegrounds while being fully compliant with Indian laws and regulations.

In light of recent developments, PUBG Corporation has made the decision to no longer authorize the PUBG MOBILE franchise to Tencent Games in...

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PUBG Corporation is actively monitoring the situation around the recent bans of PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik and PUBG MOBILE Lite in India. It has seen an overwhelming amount of support for the game from the country’s player base and would like to thank the community for their passion and enthusiasm.

PUBG Corporation fully understands and respects the measures taken by the government as the privacy and security of player data is a top priority for the company. It hopes to work hand-in-hand with the Indian government to find a solution that will allow gamers to once again drop into the battlegrounds while being fully compliant with Indian laws and regulations.

In light of recent developments, PUBG Corporation has made the decision to no longer authorize the PUBG MOBILE franchise to Tencent Games in...

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04 Sep

Win Sanhok Prizes in the Passport 8.2 Sweepstakes

Commemorate your summer of destruction with awesome artifacts.

The PUBG Passport 8.2 Sweepstakes is a chance for North American PUBG fans to win real-world in-game loot along with a cash prize.

One lucky winner will receive US$999 plus official gear inspired by the new Sanhok: a Battleground BBQ Kit, Sanhok flip-flops, Sanhok beach towels, and Sanhok board shorts. With an active PUBG account –an account where a user has linked to both a gaming platform ID and a social media ID — fans can easily opt-in to the drawing and take their shot at the top prize.

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Win Sanhok Prizes in the Passport 8.2 Sweepstakes

Commemorate your summer of destruction with awesome artifacts.

The PUBG Passport 8.2 Sweepstakes is a chance for North American PUBG fans to win real-world in-game loot along with a cash prize.

One lucky winner will receive US$999 plus official gear inspired by the new Sanhok: a Battleground BBQ Kit, Sanhok flip-flops, Sanhok beach towels, and Sanhok board shorts. With an active PUBG account –an account where a user has linked to both a gaming platform ID and a social media ID — fans can easily opt-in to the drawing and take their shot at the top prize.

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27 Aug

Getting a Sense of PUBG Pt. 1

When you play a game with guns, they’ve got to feel good

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our Getting a Sense of PUBG series, we’re highlighting specific facets of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the incredible processes that make PUBG a crisp, true to life experience.


Marek Krasowski was one of the first people to join the P...

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Getting a Sense of PUBG Pt. 1

When you play a game with guns, they’ve got to feel good

Creating the most authentic game environment possible means engaging with a player’s senses in powerful, distinct ways—the discrete components of the game each appearing, feeling, and sounding just right. In our Getting a Sense of PUBG series, we’re highlighting specific facets of the game in context of the five senses—touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. While you can’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—lick your screen when you play PUBG, these interviews should give you a taste of the incredible processes that make PUBG a crisp, true to life experience.


Marek Krasowski was one of the first people to join the P...

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22 Jul

Season 8 is Here

Check out the highlights on your return to Sanhok

There’s a lot of new stuff to get to as PUBG Season 8 gets under way and it all starts with a drop into a re-imagined, steamier version of the Sanhok map. As dark and nefarious as the jungle seems this time around, it’s the new gameplay mechanics –including the Loot Truck, confiscated weapons, and the extra dangerous Jerry Can—that will keep you coming back for more.

Here’s a look at Season and what’s new in PUBG:

Season 8 has delivered a whole new Sanhok where the jungle has taken over and all new dangers await. There is one critter you’ll be very happy to encounter, an armor plated truck making its way on the dirt roads ...

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15 Jul

Passport 8.1 Sweepstakes: Get Your Piece of Sanhok

Enter and win cash and real-world PUBG merch inspired by Season 8 and Survivor Pass: Payback

The return to Sanhok in Season 8 will reveal a whole lot of facts about the Battlegrounds, including bits about the characters driving the story, and we want players to get in on that excitement with the PUBG Passport 8.1 Sweepstakes.

 

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