Krafton’s battle royale shooter PUBG recently launched a collaboration with the K-Pop group NewJeans, causing the peak player count on Steam to grow from 572k concurrent users to 666.8k concurrent users in less than a week! The collaboration added cosmetic items and character skins based on the group along with map changes including a new location where you can watch NewJeans music videos.
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