PUBG Mobile Is Now Available Alongside Fortnite

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PUBG Mobile is Now Available Alongside Fortnite - Let The Battle Begin!

By Tom Chapman

Published Mar 20, 2018

After taking the gaming world by storm in 2017, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is available in the USA on Apple and Android to compete with Fortnite.

Gaming fans are in for a bloodthirsty treat as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds makes its way from PC and Xbox One to mobile.

The popular Battle Royale game (loosely based on the 2000 movie) is an online multiplayer that parachutes 100 intrepid games onto an island in a last man standing situation. Scavenging weapons and taking out opponents one-by-one, the island's safe zone decreases as the number of players dwindles until only one person is left victorious. First released on Stream's early access in early 2017, PUBG got a full release by Microsoft in December and grabbed headlines ever since.

Not content with PC and Xbox One, the official PUBG Twitter announced that the game is now available on iOS and Android in the US, with more regions to be announced in the future:

As the company behind WeChat, Tencent bought the mobile rights to PUBG last year and had been rolling it out in China. However, the latest release marks the game's iPhone release outside of China and the Android release outside of a tested version that recently launched in Canada.

This has come hot on the heels of other battle royale game Fornite launching its mobile version. However, it is hard not to argue that PUBG has gone one step further that its main competitor. While some games inevitably fail in the move from PC to mobile, PUBG runs just as well as its bigger brother - if not sometimes better. Alongside voice chat for players to command their own squadron, other features include the ability to pick up weapons automatically and on-screen controls for steering and driving.

Some people may have been playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds for around a year and still may not be very good, however, the mobile game also has some help in that department. For new players to get to grips with the game, there is a new addition of bots. When leveling up, the ratio of bots to real players decreases, but with their bumbling incompetence, they aren't that hard to spot. It certainly makes it less daunting than facing 100 expert snipers on a first go, making it easier for newcomers to ease into PUBG.

Admittedly, with some slightly blurry graphics, PUBG is far from perfect, but when scaled down to a smaller screen, it is hard to really notice the downgrade in quality. Although PUBG mobile suggests iPhone 6 or higher, it is still backward compatible with an iPhone 5 providing that iOS 9 is installed. It is another 1-up on Fortnite, which will only work with Apple models beyond a 6S. According to the Google Play store, PUBG will run on over 500 Android devices as long as they are using Android 5.1.1 Lollipop or later and have at least 2 GB of RAM.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile is available now for free and is rated 17-plus.

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