The PUBG Extraction Shooter Has Officially Been Canceled

By Ashely Claudino · Polygon · Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 12:40 (3h ago) · Original article ↗

In 2025, Arc Raiders took the world by storm and piqued the gaming community's interest in extraction shooters. That is when Krafton, the developer behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, announced PUBG: Black Budget, its own take on the genre.

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