PUBG Corp Has Dropped Lawsuit Against Epic Games And Fortnite
By Ford James ·
The legal battle in South Korea has come to an end after PUBG Corp have dropped their lawsuit against Epic Games.
Just under a month ago, we reported that PUBG Corp had filed a lawsuit against Epic Games about their respective games, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite. PUBG Corp claimed that Epic had copied PUBG and purposefully hindered the development of PUBG, as the game uses the Unreal Engine, which is developed by Epic. Today though, we can confirm that PUBG Corp and Bluehole have dropped the lawsuit that was filed in South Korean courts. They sent a letter of withdrawal to Epic Games Inc’s attorneys and while they confirmed the action, they refused to comment on why or if a settlement had been reached.
Both companies are partly owned by media conglomerate Tencent and are the two current leaders in the battle royale genre, although Fortnite has been performing much better since the turn of the year. It’s not the only lawsuit filed by PUBG Corp either, as they sued Netease Inc. in a separate lawsuit, claiming that Rules of Survival and Knives Out copied the PUBG formula.
It’s a sticky situation all round, but Bluehole and PUBG Corp seem to have realised that they weren’t the pioneers of the battle royale concept and that suing Epic Games based on that fact isn’t a smart idea. PUBG isn’t doing poorly: it’s sold 44 million copies across both PC and Xbox One, but Fortnite has taken the world by storm as it released for free and is available on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and iOS.
In other PUBG news, the bracket for the Twitch Rivals PUBG Invitational has been released, while on the Fortnite side of things, a lot of new skins and cosmetics have been leaked.
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