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Ever since PUBG pioneered the genre and the subsequent rise of Fortnite, battle royale has been the dominant shooter mode of choice online. But now, the emergence of the extraction shooter as a mainstream concern, namely the popularity of Arc Raiders, threatens to take that crown.
For nearly a decade, players have been going head-to-head to be the last standing, and while other genre contenders, such as the hero shooter, have had their successes, battle royale remains the most popular, whether that be Battlegrounds, Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, or Apex Legends.
But that won’t last forever, and is something Taeseok Jang, head of PUBG Studios, is very aware of. Hence, the developer is already branching out the PlayerUnknown experience into other formats. The most notable of these is the currently in-development Black Budget, the Korean studio’s venture into the extraction shooter market.
“I believe in its potential, so that’s why we are making Black Budget,” Jang explains in an interview with IGN, when asked if extraction shooters could ever overtake battle royales. “The genre itself is very complicated compared to shooter genres in terms of gameplay, and also, as a developer, it is not easy to make a
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