PUBG is going free to play on January 12.
PUBG is going free to play on January 12.
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PUBG: Battlegrounds finally goes free to play on January 12

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PUBG: Battlegrounds has generated more than 75 million in sales since it debuted in 2017 and disrupted the shooter game genre with battle royale. And now it’s finally going to a free-to-play model.

Krafton announced at The Game Awards that the game will go F2P on January 12 on consoles and PC, signaling the start of a new era for the popular battle royale game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.