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There's also mechanical similarities to Fortnite and PUBG. Especially the variety of weapons and an ever-shrinking map.

PUBG and Fortnite are both directly inspired by Battle Royale. The whole video game genre exists and is named such because of that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game

PUBG was inspired by the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds

Fortnite added Battle Royale game mode because they saw how popular PUBG was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale

Brendan Greene made the ARMA Battle Royale mod before he PUBG. ARMA BR, H1Z1, then PUBG.

https://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2q7xie/hey_folks_this...

> The whole video game genre exists and is named such because of that movie.

If so, then it is ultimately named for the pro wrestling free-for-all format. The author says in the foreword that's how he chose the name for the book.

The term "Battle Royale" has existed since at least the 18th c.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/445444/origin-of...

So they renamed the game from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (thus why everybody called it PUBG) to PUBG: Battlegrounds. So what does the BG in PUBG stand for? The game is a real example of a PIN number!

Unsurprisingly, since PUBG was essentially "what if Battle Royale was a video game?", and Fortnite is a PUBG clone.

Well, the free side of Fortnite is a PUBG clone. The old, paid zombie/horde side is coop

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