{"id":177303,"date":"2025-09-23T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2143748"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:24:29","slug":"pubg-has-an-april-fools-arcade-minigame-where-you-fight-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pubg-has-an-april-fools-arcade-minigame-where-you-fight-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBG has an April Fools&#8217; arcade minigame where you fight chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pubg-has-an-april-fools-arcade-minigame-where-you-fight-chickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s April Fools&#8217; Day, and aside from being a living nightmare for journalists around the world, it&#8217;s also an opportunity for game developers to put out some very silly stuff. This year it seems PUBG Corp has taken up the gauntlet, releasing an arcade-style minigame for PUBG where you fight chickens. And it&#8217;s called POBG (short for Playeromnomnom&#8217;s Battlegrounds) &#8211; although that doesn&#8217;t exactly solve the debate on how to pronounce the acronym. I&#8217;m going with pob-guh. <\/p>\n<p>The minigame can be accessed through PUBG&#8217;s main menu, where it appears as a little arcade cabinet. POBG is based on a pixel art version of PUBG maps (inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Gas13\/status\/1228219044429385728?s=20\">work of artist Alexey &#8220;Gas13&#8221; Garkushin<\/a>). Having played it for a couple of levels, I have to say, it&#8217;s a surprisingly high-quality April fool. Players must shoot their way through &#8220;rooms&#8221; full of chickens, who parachute from the sky and immediately start firing semi-automatics in your general direction. (The choice of chickens is a reference to what happens when you win a regular PUBG game, which gives you the famous message &#8220;winner winner chicken dinner&#8221;.) You can pick up ammo, health and different weapons along the way, and find cover behind various crates and pieces of debris. Once you&#8217;ve cleared a stage, you can also acquire various bonus abilities to help you collect some chicken dinners. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering exactly what this looks like, you can find a quick demonstration of how POBG plays in the video above. Apparently this minigame is actually rather extended, with later stages taking place on other PUBG maps like Vikendi, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RUPXhd_beSA\">even some boss fights<\/a> with overgrown chickens. I&#8217;ll probably need a little more practice to earn my wings. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-01-pubg-has-an-april-fools-arcade-minigame-where-you-fight-chickens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-01-pubg-has-an-april-fools-arcade-minigame-where-you-fight-chickens\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April Fools&#8217; Day, and aside from being a living nightmare for journalists around the world, it&#8217;s also an opportunity for game developers to put out some very silly stuff. This year it seems PUBG Corp has taken up the gauntlet, releasing an arcade-style minigame for PUBG where you fight chickens. And it&#8217;s called POBG (short for Playeromnomnom&#8217;s Battlegrounds) &#8211; although that doesn&#8217;t exactly solve the debate on how to pronounce the acronym. I&#8217;m going with pob-guh. The minigame can be accessed through PUBG&#8217;s main menu, where it appears as a little arcade cabinet. POBG is based on a pixel art version of PUBG maps (inspired by the work of artist Alexey &#8220;Gas13&#8221; Garkushin). 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