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Despite having around 70 million average daily active users in the mobile version, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China is no more. Instead, we’ve got Game for Peace now, which, while almost identical to PUBG in many ways — it’s Tencent’s replacement for the battle royale sensation — the finer details are a little absurd. Take, for instance, Game For Peace’s new dying animation, where your enemies wave goodbye at you after you slaughter them. Tencent has now resorted to outright taking PUBG down in China, and replaced it with a more government-friendly socialist game. As they describe it, Game For Peace...

The world’s most popular mobile game PlayerUnknown's Battleground, AKA PUBG, is facing a nationwide ban in India over concerns that it is turning children into ‘manorogi,’ or psychopaths. Multiple cities in the country have already outlawed the game, there have been at least 16 arrests of people who ignored the ban and one 11-year-old boy reportedly took gamemaker Tencent to court for promoting violence and cyber-bullying. The National Child Rights Commission (NCPCR) recommended banning the game because of the violence prevalent throughout. “There are dangerous consequences to this game,” the Navbharat Times warned in an editorial. “Many children have lost...