It seems that everyone wants to have their own Battle Royale title these days. After the massive successes of an ARMA mode that turned out to be one of the most played games of the last decade, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, and Epic's record-breaking Fortnite, Ubisoft is the next developer that wants to join the genre strongly inspired by The Hunger Games and, well, Battle Royale.
According to GameReactor, Ubisoft commissioned Massive, the home of Tom Clancy's The Division and World in Conflict, to start developing a PUBG-like game this January. The Swedish studio reported back saying that they could prepare something fun in a short amount of time. That's understandable, considering that The Division's Dark Zones are basically small-scale areas of fighting to death.
Massive Entertainment is currently busy with just announced Tom Clancy's The Division 2 which is being developed by more than 1000 people and an Avatar game which will likely hit the stores around the premiere of James Cameron's Avatar 2 which is scheduled to release in December 2019.