PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones League of Legends on Twitch for the first time in 34 months

Since at least 2014, Twitch was the League of Legends network. Sure, nearly every game has an audience on the livestreaming platform, but League of Legends was the biggest draw … until PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. For the first time since at least 2014, Riot Games’ megapopular multiplayer online battle arena was not the most viewed game on Twitch over a month-long period. Instead, the surging Battlegrounds from Bluehole Studio has taken that spot with its dramatic last-person-standing action, according to Twitch viewership-tracking firm Gamoloco.

Battlegrounds is on a rampage to the top of nearly every popularity metric in the gaming industry. It has already topped Dota 2 in terms of concurrent players on Steam, which is a feat no other game has accomplished in six years. This comes after Bluehole has sold 8 million copies since launching under the Early Access program for unfinished games in March. Battlegrounds is still the No.1 bestseller on Steam worldwide, and it hasn’t even seen a discount or its first holiday. So expect Battlegrounds to keep getting bigger in unprecedented ways.