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, lovable equipment to decorate up your characters, emotes for widespread dances set to songs like “OMG,” and extra. Equal elements 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 modifications as properly. For instance, the Taego Faculty has been reworked into a shiny rainbow wonderland and there’s now a pink and purple truck stage on the beginning island of each 8 km map. You possibly can play as any member of NewJeans — Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, or Hyein — and gown your character up in lovable pastel equipment. You possibly can view all the main points on the PUBG web site.
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 stunning collaborations. PUBG has featured collaborations with the anime sequence Neon Genesis Evangelion and different video games like Offended Birds. Regardless of that, the NewJeans collab manages to stand out from earlier occasions and now individuals on-line are sharing movies exhibiting the ladies 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 individuals 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 quite a bit to take a look at, so if a ton of Bunnies instantly discovered themselves excited by attempting out PUBG, I wouldn’t blame them.