{"id":44247,"date":"2017-09-22T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=44247"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:12:43","slug":"battle-royale-battlegrounds-fortnite-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2017\/09\/22\/battle-royale-battlegrounds-fortnite-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Royale between Battlegrounds and Fortnite has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluehole, the publisher of PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds, is not pleased with Epic&#8217;s foray into the same arena. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/fortnite\/en-US\/news\/fortnite-battle-royale-goes-free\">Fortnite Battle Royale<\/a> is going free-to-play, Bluehole is pondering their relationship with Epic&#8217;s Unreal Engine 4. In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2017-09-22-pubg-devs-call-out-epic-over-fortnite-battle-royale-mode\">GamesIndustry<\/a>, Bluehole&#8217;s Chang Han Kim pointed out that while they pay Epic for their UE4 engine license, Epic has suddenly become a competitor, including the use of Battlegrounds in their marketing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have also noticed that Epic Games references PUBG in the promotion of Fortnite to their community and in communications with the press. This was never discussed with us and we don&#8217;t feel that it&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever the outcome, it&#8217;s likely that Fortnite won&#8217;t be the last copycat of Battlegrounds. To date, Bluehole&#8217;s multiplayer phenomenon has sold over 11 million units on PC alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluehole, the publisher of PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds, is not pleased with Epic&#8217;s foray into the same arena. While Fortnite Battle Royale is going free-to-play, Bluehole is pondering their relationship with Epic&#8217;s Unreal Engine 4. In an interview with GamesIndustry, Bluehole&#8217;s Chang Han Kim pointed out that while they pay Epic for their UE4 engine license, Epic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":44250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[453,454],"class_list":["post-44247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-battlegrounds","tag-fortnite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Battle Royale between Battlegrounds and Fortnite has started - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2017\/09\/22\/battle-royale-battlegrounds-fortnite-started\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Battle Royale between Battlegrounds and Fortnite has started - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bluehole, the publisher of PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds, is not pleased with Epic&#8217;s foray into the same arena. 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