PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) News Articles
Monday10th Nov 2025
News Two Games Are Getting Delisted For Xbox One And Relaunched For Series X|S This Week
"Remastered, expanded and even more stunning"
There's been a trend over the past few years of games getting upgraded from Xbox One to Xbox Series X|S, and then in recent times we've seen some titles shutting their Xbox One versions as part of the transition as well. That's exactly what's happening with two new releases this week - PUBG and...
Wednesday13th Aug 2025
News PUBG Getting Free Current-Gen Upgrade, Xbox One Version Going Offline This November
"This shift is a necessary step"
Krafton has today announced a couple bits of major news for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - as the team begins to properly shift its battle royale shooter over to current-gen systems. This November, PUBG will get a full current-gen upgrade that brings 4K / 60FPS gameplay to Xbox Series X, while the Xbox One version...
Tuesday18th Mar 2025
News PUBG Is Planning A Fresh Start On Xbox Series X|S With 'Impressive' Unreal Engine 5 Visuals
"PUBG will transition to current-generation consoles"
It's been a good while now since we were a little bit addicted to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds here at the PX offices, but a fresh update from the team makes PUBG sound worth revisiting on Xbox later this year. Yep, Krafton has let us know that a proper current-gen overhaul is coming to its...
Thursday29th Sep 2022
News PUBG Team's Mysterious Fantasy Project Revealed In Concept Trailer
The Bird That Drinks Tears
Krafton, the Korean company behind the hugely popular battle royale PUBG, has showcased a concept trailer for one of its upcoming projects. As you can see by the trailer title, the game currently has no name attached, but we do know the project is based on the Korean novel series 'The Bird That Drinks Tears'. The clip...
Monday11th Jul 2022
News PUBG Is Getting Major Next-Gen Overhaul, And Xbox Series X Sounds Impressive
Beating out PS5 by a good margin
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — or 'PUBG: Battlegrounds' as it's now named — is still going strong with a new map coming real soon! That new locale arrives in the upcoming 18.2 patch, however, it's some fresh details on the next-gen console updates that have caught our eye. To put it simply, PUBG is becoming...
Tuesday8th Feb 2022
News PUBG Developer Bluehole Announces Plans To Create NFT Avatars
Winner winner ape dinner
PUBG may have finally opted to go free-to-play last month, but not all things come for nothing. Publisher Krafton has revealed that PUBG developer Bluehole will "collaborate to create and sell NFT avatars" in the future. Yep, another one takes the plunge. The announcement comes with the usual 'metaverse' justification,...
Wednesday19th Jan 2022
News PUBG Creator Shows Off Huge 'Planet-Sized Worlds' For Upcoming Project
Planet unknown
Since PUBG exploded in popularity, various developers who worked on it are trying to create something new. One of those developers is the original creator, PlayerUnknown, who is now working to create "the biggest sandbox worlds ever attempted." We've not seen much on the "prologue" project since its inception. Hell, we don't even...
Wednesday12th Jan 2022
News PUBG Is Now Free-To-Play On Xbox, With A Catch
Battlegrounds for all
PUBG Battlegrounds first landed on consoles in Xbox Game Preview, way back in 2017. It was a premium product, even in its preview state, but it's safe to say things have changed for the genre since. To keep up, PUBG is going free. As of today, with the game's 15.2 update, PUBG is free-to-play. Anyone can jump in with a "Basic"...
Friday10th Dec 2021
News PUBG Is Finally Going Free-To-Play On Xbox In January 2022
Time to give it another go?
It's been a long time coming, but PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is finally going free-to-play across all platforms on January 12th, 2022. The news was announced as part of The Game Awards 2021. You can check out the announcement trailer below: Will you be trying PUBG when it goes free-to-play? Let us know in the...
Monday26th Oct 2020
News PUBG's Performance Is 'Extremely Smooth And Stable' On Xbox Series X|S
"With faster loading and little to no frame drops"
With the release of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S now just two weeks away, the dev team for battle royale PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has unveiled how the game will run via backwards compatibility on the new systems. First, the specs. The Xbox Series X version will leverage the Xbox One X...
Thursday7th May 2020
News Free Play Days: These Four Games Are Free On Xbox This Weekend
Update: Another title added!
Update: 2K has also confirmed that following yesterday's announcement of PGA Tour 2K21, it is making The Golf Club 2019 available until May 14th as part of Free Play Days. We've updated the list below. Original Story: Microsoft has added three games to the Xbox Live Free Play Days list for this weekend, complete with
Monday27th Apr 2020
News Bots Are Being Added To PUBG To Make Noobs Feel Less Inadequate
Maybe we'll actually win now
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of those games that fanatics put hundreds of hours into, making the rest of us look utterly terrible out there on the battlefield. In response to the skill gap that has widened over the past few years, the PUBG Console Team says it's adding bots to help combat the issue. While PUBG...
