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Krafton permanently bans two players for stream sniping in PUBG Asia Stars 2026

Krafton imposed permanent sanctions on Himass and TanVuu for using external information during PUBG Asia Stars 2026. It permanently banned their game accounts and barred them from all official esports events run or approved by Krafton, effective from the notice. Krafton said it found no additional violations requiring sanctions among other participants. It also apologised to participant Supi and said it would seek deletion and blocking of false claims and illegal edited posts and cooperate on legal action.

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Krafton PUBG Asia event ends early after fairness row, Day 3 cancelled

Krafton ended its PUBG: Battlegrounds Asia regional event early by cancelling the final schedule after a dispute over fairness. It removed two Vietnam participants from the remaining matches and revoked their PUBG partner status. Korean participants boycotted Day 2 in protest over tournament operations. Some sponsors paused related promotions and sponsorships. The organiser will not confirm final rankings and will pay the $70,000 prize pool equally to all regions.

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Krafton to scout and nurture \'fun games\' as it seeks to move beyond PUBG focus

Krafton is seeking to reinvent itself as a company that discovers and develops fun games, with a strategy to foster promising titles into franchises regardless of genre or IP. At Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, it unveiled five new games spanning multiple genres and development approaches. The company says it is pursuing a publishing strategy built on challenging genre conventions, working with external studios and reinterpreting existing franchises, while strengthening a repeatable system to find, validate and scale up franchise IP.