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Kaan Serin

PUBG: Black Budget is cashing in on the Arc Raiders and Escape from Tarkov extraction shooter hype, this time with a battle royale-style shrinking map

Screenshot from PUBG: Black Budget, showing a first-person view of someone reloading their silenced pistol while in a green forest.

Between Escape from Tarkov's steady popularity, Arc Raiders' explosive hype, and Bungie's upcoming reboot of Marathon, it seems like extraction shooters are all the rage right now. And, not one to miss out on a trend, Krafton's striking while the iron's hot and is soon holding a closed playtest for its own extraction shooter spinoff, called PUBG: Black Budget, next month.

Krafton quietly lifted the lid off PUBG: Black Budget earlier today. It's essentially a PvPvE extraction shooter that sees squads dropping down on an island trapped in a time loop, all while a supernatural anomaly gets in the way of your mission to loot top-secret research.

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