A few days ago, the Korea game news website GAMEVU reported that PUBG Studio, owned by "PUBG" developer KRAFTON, is developing a new triple-A game masterpiece. And the studio has invested a lot of money and manpower, with a budget of 100 million US dollars (about 727 million yuan).

This news comes from the departed game producer Flash Kowaleski of the PUBG studio. Flash Kowaleski is a well-known game producer in Korea, who has participated in the development of many well-known games, such as "Halo: Infinite" and "The Elder Scrolls: Legends".

Not long ago, Flash Kowaleski revealed on LinkedIn that he had left PUBG Studios. Prior to his departure, he worked as the lead producer of a triple-A game at PUBG Madison in Wisconsin, United States, from October 2023 to June 2024.

At the time, Flash Kowaleski said, he led a team of more than 70 people working on a triple-A game with a $100 million budget. At present, this game has passed the early game development dilemma and officially entered the stage of large-scale research and development.

Judging from the information revealed by Flash Kowaleski, this is a new shooting game based on the Unreal Engine 5 newly developed by PUBG Madison, rather than the evacuation shooter "Project Black Budget" that was revealed earlier.

At the beginning of this year, PUBG Madison released a job posting, including Senior Level Designer, Senior Game Animator, Senior Technical Animator, etc. At that time, the company revealed that it was developing a "new IP" similar to PUBG, which was developed based on Unreal Engine 5 and positioned as a "triple-A level".

Earlier, PUBG CEO Kim Chang-han also said in an interview with the media that the company will conduct in-depth mining of the "PUBG" IP, and strive to create a multi-game "universe" centered on this IP. However, it is not yet certain whether the new work revealed by Flash Kowaleski is a similar "new IP" work of "PUBG" mentioned above.

In addition to the new works that broke the news this time, there are many new products under development under KRAFTON, such as the evacuation shooter game "Project Black Budget", the life simulation game "inZOI", the dungeon evacuation mobile game "Dark and Darker Mobile", and the action-adventure game "Bird Drinking Tears".

Among them, inZOI, a business simulation game developed with Unreal Engine 5, is scheduled to launch by the end of this year. In the game, players can create a variety of stories in a game world with "endless possibilities". They can create their own characters, decide what they wear, design their homes, choose their classes, and it's up to the player to decide.

Dark and Darker Mobile is a new game developed by KRAFTON's studio Bluehole Studio, and the game is currently in beta and will be held in beta from August 1 to 11 this year. "The Bird That Drinks Tears" is an IP adaptation of the fantasy literary work "The Bird That Drinks Tears / 눈물을마시는새)" written by "Dragon Family" fiction writer Lee Young-do, which will be the first hit in 2022, and there is no new news at present.

Sources:

https://www.gamevu.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=34127

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