Krafton is “challenging ourselves to popularize the extraction shooter genre,” the company said. The game so far is called “Project BlackBudget,” South Korea-based Krafton told investors last week, and a three-pronged launch - PC, console, and mobile - is on the table. PUBG’s studio is working on an extraction shooter, a subgenre that looks like the way of the future, especially for the heavy hitters among first-person shooter developers. Tucked inside a report to investors, one sees the plans PUBG: Battlegrounds publisher Krafton has made to extricate itself from a battle royale market it helped create, but which seems to be plateauing, even for the Big Four (including Apex Legends, Fortnite, and Call of Duty : Warzone) that dominate the space.
