PUBG Mobile is one of the most popular games in India right now and the biggest sign of its popularity was it being name-dropped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his interaction with students and parents at his Pariksha Par Charcha 2.0 event in New Delhi on Tuesday. The game has its origins in the battle royale genre that started on PC with games like Minecraft. PUBG is short for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds named after game designer Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene who developed PUBG on PC with Korea's PUBG Corp. It was inspired by the 2000 Japanese movie, Battle Royale. This was followed up by an iOS and Android release that's simply called PUBG Mobile and here's everything you need to know about it.
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PUBG Mobile[1] is an online game where 100 players parachute onto an island with no weapons or armour or items outside of cosmetic items that don't impact gameplay.
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The game map shrinks every few minutes, forcing you to relocate to a new area, and damaging you until you do. Failing to enter a new safe zone results in death.
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If you're the last player standing in PUBG Mobile, you're greeted with the phrase ‘winner, winner, chicken dinner'.
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The game has been extremely popular on Android and iOS, clocking in around 200 million downloads and with 30 million users[2] playing it daily.
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PUBG Mobile is a game for Android and iOS smartphones based on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG for short), a battle royale game that first released on PC and Xbox One[3].
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PUBG Mobile is developed by the Tencent-owned studio Lightspeed and Quantum in...