Just a couple of days ago, the hit battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds arrived on the Xbox One via the Xbox Game Preview program. While the port is still in early access, fans are already complaining that PUBG on a console doesn’t run as well as the native PC version. This can be expected when porting a game to less powerful hardware, but players have found a way to access the graphics settings menu as on PC.
Discovered by Resetera user JumPeR (via Gamespot), plugging a USB keyboard into the Xbox One allows players to control the game using traditional keyboard controls. That has been seen before; however, pressing the ‘O’ key will bring up the graphics menu as it appears in the PC version. Using the base Xbox One model, it appears that PUBG is running on the PC’s “very low” preset settings. It was also discovered that the added power of the Xbox One X runs the game at the equivalent of the “medium” settings. The actual settings cannot be adjusted.
Despite the keyboard allowing players to move around using WASD controls, support for the mouse appears to be absent.
Originally based on mods for H1Z1: King of the Hill and ARMA, PUBG has become a highly popular first-person shooter with a last-man-standing game mechanic. While the Battle Royale element is not entirely new, PUBG brought it to a mainstream audience. It even went on to be nominated for Game of the Year at Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards 2017.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is mere days away from releasing version 1.0 of the PC version. On December 20, the game will finally exit early access Steam’s Early Access program and launch as a full game. Along with the release, PUBG‘s long-awaited second map “Miramar” will be available on PC. Xbox One owners will have to wait until early 2018.
As it exists on Xbox One, PUBG is still in a rough state. As described by Digital Foundry, when joining a game, “You’re instantly besieged by low-resolution textures that seem to be failing to stream in properly, combined with performance just above or below the 20 frames per second threshold.”
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
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The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”