It looks like no world — bodily nor digital — is proof against the girly pop aptitude of NewJeans. The globally well-known Ok-pop group made its debut in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds as a part of the 30.1 replace on Wednesday. The collaboration provides every member of the group as a playable character, lovely equipment to decorate up your characters, emotes for well-liked dances set to songs like “OMG,” and extra. Equal components weird and great, the PUBG replace has already captured the fascination of followers on-line.
Krafton launched the NewJeans x PUBG: Battlegrounds collaboration on Wednesday to Home windows PC customers and can launch it to console customers on June 20. The PC patch has launched some environmental adjustments as effectively. For instance, the Taego College has been remodeled into a glittery rainbow wonderland and there’s now a pink and purple truck stage on the beginning island of each 8 km map. You may play as any member of NewJeans — Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, or Hyein — and costume your character up in lovely pastel equipment. You may view all the small print on the PUBG website.
The collaboration brings a vibrant pop of coloration to the gritty world of PUBG. Identical to different live-service video games, PUBG isn’t any stranger to shocking collaborations. PUBG has featured collaborations with the anime collection Neon Genesis Evangelion and different video games like Indignant Birds. Regardless of that, the NewJeans collab manages to stand out from earlier occasions and now folks on-line are sharing movies exhibiting the women emoting within the sport. The dances simply look that good. Here’s a video of Minji from NewJeans doing a number of dances from songs like “Tremendous Shy” and “OMG.”
It’s solely been a day, however folks have already began to make memes of the woman group within the sport. This video options a number of moments, together with one the place Haerin dances on a knocked out performed after which shoots them at level clean vary.
I personally can’t get this video of a number of characters becoming a member of in on dancing the choreo for “Hype Boy” out of my head.
There’s lots to take a look at, so if a ton of Bunnies immediately discovered themselves focused on making an attempt out PUBG, I wouldn’t blame them.