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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by kelseyfrog on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:04PM (#42657481)
There's also mechanical similarities to Fortnite and PUBG. Especially the variety of weapons and an ever-shrinking map.
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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by codetrotter on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:12PM (#42657554)
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

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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by AustinDev on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:20PM (#42657641)
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...

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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by arrosenberg on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:22PM (#42657665)
> 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.

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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by viciousvoxel on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:25PM (#42658384)
The term "Battle Royale" has existed since at least the 18th c.

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

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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by philistine on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:43PM (#42663113)
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!
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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by Nullabillity on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:11PM (#42657539)
Unsurprisingly, since PUBG was essentially "what if Battle Royale was a video game?", and Fortnite is a PUBG clone.
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Re:Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale by butlike on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:37PM (#42657809)
Well, the free side of Fortnite is a PUBG clone. The old, paid zombie/horde side is coop
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