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Battle-Royale is a multi-player feature that allows as many as 100 players to fight each other at a common gaming environment till only the winner is left standing. It was introduced by Epic Games last year in its widely-popular Fortnite, and later adapted by PUBG, developed by South Korean gaming company Bluehole.
Thanks to the huge popularity of the format, Activision Blizzard (ATVI) had recently announced that it would incorporate Battle-Royale to its own flagship title Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
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Reiterating its overweight rating on EA stock, Piper Jaffray had recently expressed optimism that Battlefield 5 would provide a fillip to the company’s sales. The rating agency expects the game’s sale to be 16 million units in fiscal 2019, which would help EA regain some of the market share it lost to PUBG and Fortnite.
Apart from this, Anthem, a multi-player title that allows gamers to battle it out in super-cool exosuits, is coming out in February 2019. Anthem is developed by BioWare, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts.
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