Sorry, PlayerUnknown, you probably can’t stop Battlegrounds‘ copycats

Enlarge In the months since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds became an out-of-nowhere top-selling hit, the Battle Royale genre of last-man-standing free-for-alls has been surging in popularity. Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, though, says he isn’t too happy with the slate of “copycats” that have followed in Battlegrounds’ wake. “There’s no intellectual property protection in games,” Greene complained to BBC […]

Trump’s war on the media is inspiring copycats outside the US

Spencer Platt/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s attacks on the US media have sent shivers through the public at home, but in at least one other country, government officials are imitating Trump’s aggressive stance toward the journalism. Phay Siphan, as spokesman for Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, the country’s executive branch, wrote on Facebook this weekend that […]