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2010-2019 The 2010s

Battlegrounds turns a mod idea into a global format

A hundred players parachute onto an island, scavenge weapons and fight until one remains, inside a boundary that keeps shrinking. Sold unfinished, it reached tens of millions of players within a year.

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The 2010s

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One design template reorganized competitive multiplayer for a decade. It also showed that a genre could be invented by players modifying existing games and then commercialized by a small studio, with the innovation arriving from outside the major publishers entirely.

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