| Greene continued to adopt his format as a consultant for before becoming the creative developer at of a standalone game representing his vision of the battle royale genre, which would later be released as | from the original on March 23, 2018 |
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| In September 2017, the game broke the previous record for highest number of concurrent players on Steam, with over 1 | Battlegrounds creator Brendan Greene credited it with further growing the battle royale genre |
Chalk, Andy October 12, 2018.
16| The mod was designed to include encounters, but generally these events were infrequent due to the size of the game's map and the persistence of the game world | from the original on December 27, 2017 |
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| from the original on May 6, 2020 | from the original on June 10, 2018 |
There are various modifications that can be implemented atop the fundamentals of the battle royale.
| from the original on September 23, 2017 | However, during mid-2018, the Chinese government revamped how it reviewed and classified games that are to be published in China, and by December 2018, after the formation of the new Online Ethics Review Committee, several battle royale titles, including Fortnite and PUBG, were listed as prohibited or must be withdrawn from play |
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| By the end of the decade, the genre became a cultural phenomenon, with standalone games such as 2017 , 2017 , 2019 , and 2020 , each having received tens of millions of players within months of their releases | Minotii, Mike December 15, 2017 |
Activision's series features a battle royale mode titled Blackout in its 2018 installment, , as does EA's.
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