PUBG Hits 5 Million Players on Xbox One; Announces Free Cosmetic Jacket DLC

Battle royale genre titles such as PUBG and Fortnite are becoming then popular that even many upcoming games, such as 'Red Dead Redemption ii' and 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 4' are rumored to add a Battle Royale Way in the time to come.

Yet, they sure take their chore cut out, given the hyper-popularity of Bluehole Studio'south biggest game that has now reached the milestone of v meg players on Xbox Ane alone. The game had earlier crossed 3 one thousand thousand players on the platform within the first calendar month of its release.

Microsoft is celebrating the latest feat by offer a cosmetic jacket DLC to all players who have bought the game and activated a graphic symbol on Xbox 1 before March 22, 2018. The jacket can be seen in the image above. Sure, it isn't the biggest souvenir you could have asked for, simply hey, it's free, and then stop lament virtually it already.

PUBG Corp. has too taken the opportunity to release an infographic (image beneath) that shows off some quirky stats near the game. Almost five million people have won chicken dinners, with 34 minutes being the boilerplate time required to win. Over 4.5 billion bandages have been used to heal all the bullet wounds, while the 'Blue Zone' turned out to be a surprisingly popular way to dice, with over 41 one thousand thousand people dying considering they failed escape its clutches. 952,312 people were killed by the game's trademark frying pan.

PUBG Hits 5 Million Players on Xbox One; Announces Free Cosmetic Jacket DLC

One thing that needs to be mentioned here is that PUBG is only bachelor on Microsoft's platforms (Xbox and Windows) for at present, thanks to an exclusive partnership between the Redmond giant and Bluehole Studios. Nonetheless, the exclusivity is time-limited, and the game is very probable to come to PS4 once the period expires, so the number of players may fifty-fifty see a big leap, going frontward.