PUBG has seen an enormous surge in its playerbase following its free-to-play launch as PUBG: Battlegrounds earlier this 12 months. According to mum or dad firm Krafton’s earnings report for the primary half of 2022, the favored battle royale shooter gained over 80,000 gamers per day because it went free-to-play in January. The recreation’s common income per consumer has additionally elevated by 20% in Q2 2022 in comparison with the earlier fiscal quarter.
Krafton’s complete income for the primary half of 2022 can also be up by practically 3% at $739.5 million with over 75% coming from cellular video games, together with PUBG Mobile and its different PUBG cellular recreation, New State Mobile. Revenue for the second quarter of 2022, nevertheless, has dropped by practically 8% in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
Meanwhile, the corporate is getting ready to share extra data on its upcoming video games at Gamescom 2022 later this month. Fans can count on the official reveal of the corporate’s new Unknown Worlds IP together with extra data on Striking Distance Studios’ next-gen survival horror recreation The Callisto Protocol that’s scheduled to launch on December 2nd.
Krafton has additionally began work on an unannounced recreation based mostly on the favored Korean fantasy collection of novels, The Bird That Drinks Tears. The recreation is being developed with world-renowned idea artist Ian McCaig as its design director.
