ANOTHER DIGITAL STRIKE, 118 CHINESE APPS, INCLUDING PUBG, BANNED
  • 4 years ago
The mobile and lite versions of the wildly popular multiplayer battle game PUBG, that is Player Unknown’s BattleGrounds, was among 118 Chinese apps banned by the IT ministry on Wednesday, part of a crackdown that began in June amid rising tensions with China in Ladakh. This ban probably has the most people affected since the action against TikTok in the first round of app bans. PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite together have an estimated 50 million active users in the country, with around 13 million clocking in every day. Incidentally, the non-mobile version of the game, PUBG PC, is Korean-made and Korean-owned, but is now the least-played version in India. The two mobile versions were developed and are owned by the Chinese company Tencent Games.
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