Is The Battle Royale Genre Dying?

Like all great multiplayer online games and genres, the Battle Royale genre also started as a mod. Among the greatest mods of all time like Counter-Strike, a mod of Half-Life, DOTA, a modded map of Warcraft 3, Battle Royale Genre started as a mod called DayZ for the game ARMA 2.

Brendan Greene, a developer who created DayZ, later worked as the creative developer for Bluehole and created one of the most popular games in the Battle Royale Genre, PUBG. As PUBG blew up the Battle Royale genr...

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