PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, H1Z1: King of the Kill, and more are part of a popular new genre on PC gaming’s biggest platform where you have to survive a fight to the death on a huge map.
GamesBeat has done these kinds of comparisons with multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs) and digital card games. This time, we’re looking at Battlegrounds and King of the Kill because they are among the most popular releases on PC right now. On a recent weekend, more than 340,000 players were playing developer Bluehole’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at the same time, according to data-tracking site Steamspy. The peak concurrent players for King of the Kill on that same weekend was 150,000. That puts those games ahead of just about anything on Steam aside from Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which are from Valve, the company that runs Steam.
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