{"id":97402,"date":"2019-07-26T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/347480"},"modified":"2019-07-26T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:48:00","slug":"pubg-corp-says-it-has-buried-the-hatchet-with-fortnite-dev-epic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/pubg-corp-says-it-has-buried-the-hatchet-with-fortnite-dev-epic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBG Corp says it has buried the hatchet with Fortnite dev Epic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile I think we can learn a little bit from how that\u2019s working over there, just like all games learn from each other, I don\u2019t think their model exactly works for us.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

– PUBG Corp’s Brian Corrigan details the relationship between it and <\/em>Fortnite dev Epic Games.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite past animosity, PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds <\/em>developer PUBG Corp says there\u2019s no bad blood between it and Fortnite<\/em> developer Epic Games, going so far as to tell PCGamesN that \u201cthey\u2019re one of our best partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that conversation, which can be found in full here<\/a>, PUBG Corp studio director Brian Corrigan explains that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds<\/em> and Fortnite<\/em> have grown into two quite different games, though they can learn lessons from one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess what I\u2019m trying to say is, it\u2019s not like we\u2019re taking the blueprint over there and trying to build a better photocopier,\u201d says Corrigan. \u201cThat\u2019s not it. If there\u2019s pieces that work for us, that\u2019s great, because we should learn from the best teachers across a lot of different games, but our formula is unique. That\u2019s something we understand, and we have to always remember: this PUBG<\/em> formula is unique, there really is nothing else out there like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A relationship between the two companies is expected since PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds <\/em>is built on Epic Games\u2019 Unreal Engine and, higher up the ladder, both companies are involved with the Chinese company Tencent.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s quite a different tune from the one PUBG Corp was singing a little over a year ago. Last May, the company filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Epic Games that alleged Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s then-new battle royale mode infringes on PUBG Corp\u2019s copyrights due to its similarity to PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/em>. Slightly before the lawsuit was launched, the vice president of PUBG Corp parent company Bluehole accused Epic of \u201creplicating the experience for which Battlegrounds<\/em> is known\u201d through the free-to-play Fortnite<\/em> mode. However, that lawsuit was quietly withdrawn<\/a> less than a month later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile I think we can learn a little bit from how that\u2019s working over there, just like all games learn from each other, I don\u2019t think their model exactly works for us.\u201d – PUBG Corp’s Brian Corrigan details the relationship between it and Fortnite dev Epic Games. Despite past animosity, PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp says there\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}