Krafton’s PUBG Studio Is Growing a New Recreation To ‘Push the Shooter Style Ahead’

Krafton’s PUBG Madison studio, builders of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, are actually engaged on a brand new IP within the shooter style. This title is completely different from the already confirmed Black Price range venture, which can function a spin-off to the PUBG IP.

Again in November 2023, it was introduced that Black Price range is an upcoming PUBG spinoff that includes an “everchanging PvPvE open world.” Now, there’s a new job itemizing by PUBG Madison (as noticed by Gamesual), which reveals details about what the studio, which introduced a genre-defining battle royale to the scene, is planning.

“PUBG Madison is creating an thrilling new IP that goals to push the shooter style ahead”, as per the itemizing, and whereas there isn’t a official communication but concerning the title, the job openings’ descriptions paint a tough image of what the sport might supply and appear to be. For starters, the place of Senior Stage Designer requires a “sturdy information of shooters, each PVP and PVE”, so it might be one other PvPvE title from Krafton. Furthermore, there’s additionally a requirement that the Senior Stage Designer would have “immediately personal the extent design of Factors of Curiosity inside giant maps and different areas as assigned”, which factors in the direction of giant maps with varied POIs.

There’s one other job opening for a Senior Technical Animator, the place one of many duties is to “creator rigs and belongings spanning throughout characters, weapons, creatures, automobiles, and props.”

PUBG Studios’ subsequent venture is likely to be made on Unreal Engine 5

Whereas it’s nonetheless a stretch, all three of those do make it appear to be one other battle royale shooter is brewing, however there isn’t a point out of battle royale within the listings to broaden on that faculty of thought. PUBG Madison has additionally claimed that they are going to look to “push the shooter style ahead”, and one other battle royale title may not be what they might take into account for engaging in that.

Apparently, the listings additionally require expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, so the upcoming venture is likely to be based mostly on Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5, and given the latest studies about Krafton’s pivot to Unreal Engine for PUBG, it turns into doubtless that different tasks are additionally following the identical route.

Regardless, all of those are speculations in the meanwhile, so it’s suggested to take this data in with a pinch of salt till there’s an official announcement from Krafton.