PUBG: Battlegrounds Follows Street Fighter 6 Tracks and Announces K-Pop Collab
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- PUBG: Battlegrounds announced an upcoming collaboration event with K-pop group Aespa.
- The collaboration will launch on July 9, 2025, for the PC version of the game and on July 17, 2025, for consoles.
- The news comes the day after Street Fighter 6 officially announced its collaboration with Aespa.
PUBG: Battlegrounds announced an upcoming collaboration event with K-pop group Aespa via a post on X (formerly Twitter) on July 2, 2025.
According to the announcement, the collaboration will launch on July 9, 2025, for the PC version of the game and on July 17, 2025, for consoles.
The news comes the day after Street Fighter 6 officially announced its collaboration with Aespa, a South Korean K-pop group of four members: Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning, known for popularizing the metaverse concept and hyperpop music, as of July 2025.
Developed by Krafton’s PUBG Studios and published by Krafton, the game is a PvP shooter in which up to one hundred players fight in a battle royale. Players can choose to enter the match solo, duo, or with a small team of up to four people. The last person or team alive wins the match. As of the time of writing, PUBG: Battlegrounds has a “Mixed” rating on Steam with 2,571,589 reviews and an all-time peak of 3,257,248 players.
Notably, as of July 2025, PUBG: Battlegrounds has sold over 88 million copies worldwide across PC and console platforms since its launch in 2017. This figure does not include the free-to-play mobile version, PUBG Mobile, which, as of July 2025, has generated over $11 billion in revenue since its release in March 2018.
