Krafton’s PUBG Studio Is Developing a New Game To ‘Push the Shooter Genre Forward’

Krafton’s PUBG Madison studio, builders of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, at the moment are engaged on a brand new IP within the shooter style. This title is totally different from the already confirmed Black Funds undertaking, which can function a spin-off to the PUBG IP.

Again in November 2023, it was introduced that Black Funds is an upcoming PUBG spinoff that includes an “everchanging PvPvE open world.” Now, there’s a new job itemizing by PUBG Madison (as noticed by Gamesual), which reveals details about what the studio, which introduced a genre-defining battle royale to the scene, is planning.

“PUBG Madison is growing an thrilling new IP that goals to push the shooter style forward”, as per the itemizing, and whereas there isn’t any official communication but in regards to the title, the job openings’ descriptions paint a tough image of what the sport could provide and appear like. For starters, the place of Senior Stage Designer requires a “sturdy data of shooters, each PVP and PVE”, so it might be one other PvPvE title from Krafton. Furthermore, there’s additionally a requirement that the Senior Stage Designer would have “instantly personal the extent design of Factors of Curiosity inside massive maps and different areas as assigned”, which factors in the direction of massive maps with varied POIs.

There may be one other job opening for a Senior Technical Animator, the place one of many tasks is to “writer rigs and property spanning throughout characters, weapons, creatures, autos, and props.”

PUBG Studios’ subsequent undertaking is perhaps made on Unreal Engine 5

Whereas it’s nonetheless a stretch, all three of those do make it seem to be one other battle royale shooter is brewing, however there isn’t any point out of battle royale within the listings to broaden on that college of thought. PUBG Madison has additionally claimed that they may look to “push the shooter style forward”, and one other battle royale title may not be what they’d bear in mind for undertaking that.

Apparently, the listings additionally require expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5, so the upcoming undertaking is perhaps based mostly on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, and given the latest studies about Krafton’s pivot to Unreal Engine for PUBG, it turns into probably that different tasks are additionally following the identical route.

Regardless, all of those are speculations in the meanwhile, so it’s suggested to take this data in with a pinch of salt till there’s an official announcement from Krafton.