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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
PUBG Creator's Next Game is Having an Open Beta and You Can Play It Right Now
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors The creator of PUBG: Battlegrounds has been hard at work on new and interesting projects since leaving the development of the game in 2019, and after the release of Preface: Undiscovered World late last year, the next game from PlayerUnknown Productions is finally playable for everyone. PlayerUnknown Productions has announced the launch of an open beta for Prologue: Go Wayback!, a new single-player survival sandbox game. Prologue was initially planned to launch in early access in Q2 of this year, but the studio decided to hold a lengthy open beta period before that, a decision explained by Brendan Greene – PlayerUnknown himself – in a video on YouTube. A player looking at a map next to a river in a promotional screenshot for Prologue: Go Wayback! A player looking at a map next to a river in a promotional screenshot for Prologue: Go Wayback! PlayerUnknown Productions "We chose this path as after running playtests with our amazing Discord community over the last six months and seeing their fantastic feedback and suggestions, we were inspired to add more ways for you to explore our generated worlds," Greene says in the video. "In the open beta, we still offer a great emergent survival experience, featuring millions of maps for you to explore, but over the coming months leading up to our early access launch, we plan to test and add more features based on our community suggestions." Greene says that multiple community-suggested features, like a map editor and a save game function, will be added to the game's open beta in the coming months, with some of those features being tested first by members of the game's community Discord. Prologue: Go Wayback! is a unique game that uses machine learning to generate massive 64 square kilometer maps each time you play. PlayerUnknown Productions says that its machine learning algorithms are built on open source data that is vetted to ensure that no copyrighted material is being used, and they generate base terrain which is then populated with custom assets like trees, rocks, rivers, and more. The result is a huge, unique game world that looks and feels natural but is different every time you boot up the game — that's the idea, at least. Players interested in trying out the game can head on over to Prologue: Go Wayback!'s Steam page, where they'll need to click the green "Request Access" button in the playtest banner. The open beta should be available to anybody who's interested, and it's currently free to join in and test the game out ahead of its early access launch later this year.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The first gameplay trailer for PUBG creator's 'brutal' survival game shows off deadly weather and cozy cabins
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "I expect a lot of people will hate it," said Brendan Greene, creator of PUBG, when talking about his next game. That's not the strongest sales pitch I've ever heard, but makes more sense with the context that he's talking about the uncompromising difficulty of survival game Prologue: Go Wayback!, which launches into early access this summer. "I like brutal games," he told PC Gamer earlier this year, and with Prologue, he set out to make one with as little hand-holding as possible. We've seen some teases for Prologue over the last year but its first proper gameplay trailer arrived today. There's no monsters to fight or zombies to flee or enemies to conquer: it's strictly you versus nature, and that nature looks pretty darn deadly: The goal of Prologue is to survive long enough to reach a weather station placed in a randomized spot each time you play. You've got a map, but it's not the typical videogame map that automatically centers you or provides an arrow showing exactly where you are. This is just a regular old paper map you hold in your hands, as if you were really walking in the woods without a GPS. The trailer shows what you'll be up against: driving rains, blinding snow, powerful winds, the darkness of night, and tough terrain you can blunder over, get bogged down in, or slip and slide down if you're not careful. Even the cozy cabins you come across don't mean you're safe from the elements. You'll need to start a fire or you still might freeze, and board up windows during a storm to stay dry. Food, water, supplies, a heat source, and good gear are all necessary to survive your trek, and you'll have to brave the elements to find them. Ellie got to try out Prologue earlier this year, and reported that it "isn't and likely never will be a genre-defining survival game. But that doesn't mean it's not worth checking out, especially if you've been looking for a purely difficult and realistic survival experience that isn't bogged down with expansive crafting and an in-depth story."
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game launches this summer for $20, and its new trailer shows all the ways it'll try and kill you
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Prologue: Go Wayback! the new survival game from PUBG creator Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene, will launch into early access this summer, at a $20 price tag. In a new trailer, which you can see below, developer PlayerUnknown Productions introduces you to the huge open world that Prologue will set you down in. From your starting point, you'll have to navigate (the old-fashioned way, using a real compass and map) to a weather station somewhere in the surrounding area. But as you do so, you'll have to contend with driving snow, pouring rain, and howling gales. and that's before you have to struggle to navigate in the dark, or deal with the hunger pangs that are sure to accompany multiple days tramping around in the wilderness. That vast array of different locations and weather conditions exists because Prologue is not just a normal (if difficult) survival game. For one thing, it wants to be "as hard a survival game as you can make, but it's also the first step towards a much bigger goal. Greene wants to make sprawling maps thousands of kilometres in size, and Prologue is the first viable test of the tech used to make it. When I played the game in the team's Amsterdam studio earlier this month, the devs reckoned there were anything up to 4.2 billion different worlds seeds, meaning win or lose, you'll never see the same map twice. The new release window means that a three-year journey for Greene and his team is drawing to a close, but Prologue will be launching into early access on Steam, which means that it'll continue to develop in future. "If we can do it… This will be something groundbreaking": PUBG creator Brendan Greene is five years into making a 10,000km "realistic Minecraft" – but there's still a decade to go.
