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PUBG maker Krafton will raise $5B in public offering

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Krafton, the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (the battle royale shooter game known as PUBG) plans to raise $5 billion in a public offering.

Bloomberg reported that South Korea-based Krafton plans to sell more than 10 million shares at a price between $409.78 to $498.36 a share, and that could help the company finance big plans to be a dominant player in the fast-growing game industry.

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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.