Krafton is looking for its subsequent PUBG

PUBG developer Krafton has 26 video games in improvement, and in a current city corridor assembly, the corporate outlined a plan to “concentrate on its core gaming enterprise whereas outlining a disciplined strategy to constructing long-term Franchise IPs.”

“Throughout the previous 12 months, KRAFTON has ready for Franchise IP improvement by strengthening its inventive management, in addition to upgrading its total recreation improvement and publishing frameworks,” the corporate says. “In 2026, the corporate will ramp up improvement of latest titles with potential to develop into Franchise IPs, whereas on the similar time accelerating the expansion of the PUBG IP Franchise.”

The “26-project improvement pipeline” is “deliberately structured round early validation and clear resolution gates,” Krafton says. 12 video games, together with Subnautica 2, Palworld Cellular, and No Legislation, are focused for a launch inside “the following two years.”

Krafton nonetheless plans to construct out the PUBG franchise, together with increasing the user-generated content material that “leverages PUBG’s core gunplay, mechanics, and physics engine, consolidating an ecosystem the place gamers can create and share their very own content material.” (PUBG: Battlegrounds continues to be an enormous recreation — as I write this, it has almost 200,000 concurrent gamers and is the fourth most-played recreation on the platform, in accordance to Steam’s charts.)

The corporate additionally reiterated its dedication introduced final 12 months to being “AI First,” saying it’s “evaluating how its recreation expertise could ultimately be utilized to areas comparable to bodily AI and robotics,” which it calls “long-term exploratory alternatives.”