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Another PUBG Game Cancelled - Krafton Pulls the Plug on Time-Looping Extraction Shooter Black Budget Following an Internal Review
Krafton said testing failed to meet its standards, ending the extraction shooter after about a year in development.
- On October 1, Krafton announced the cancellation of PUBG: Black Budget, a PUBG spin-off extraction shooter, after an internal review concluded the project would not deliver a long-term enjoyable player experience.
- First revealed in November 2025, Black Budget was positioned as a major extraction shooter amid surging genre interest following the launches of Arc Raiders and Escape from Tarkov.
- Despite conducting multiple Closed Alpha tests, including a major session in June, Developer PUBG Studios concluded the current direction would not meet long-term player expectations.
- Black Budget is the second PUBG spin-off canceled, following Blindspot's cancellation in March after two months in early access; PUBG DED.NET development continues.
- PUBG Studios will incorporate lessons learned from development and testing into future projects, continuing to explore new gameplay experiences for the PUBG series.
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Krafton has officially ended development of the new game 'PUBG: Black Budget' based on PUBG IP. The development team decided that it was difficult to provide a satisfactory game experience and stopped the project as a result of not achieving clear results in the past two alpha tests.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Ju-hwan = Krafton [259960] first unveiled the development of 'PUBG: Black Budget', the next title in the 'PUBG: Battlegrounds' universe...
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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