Popular free-to-play shooter PUBG is officially closing down the servers for the last-gen consoles later this year.

Previously known as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, before being rebranded as PUBG: Battlegrounds, this popular shooter was one of the titles that helped establish the battle royale genre as we know it today.

Perhaps without PUBG, the likes of Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone wouldn't have become as popular or successful as they are today.

Originally released in 2017, PUBG is still going strong, according to SteamDB. At the time of writing, the shooter hit an all-time concurrent player peak of more than 3.2 million over seven years ago.

As of today, it has a 24-hour concurrent player peak of 725,587, which is mighty impressive for a game that’s approaching being a decade

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