PUBG Mobile to make a comeback in India, pumps $100mn into gaming

 PUBG Corporation on Thursday announced that it is planning to launch PUBG Mobile game in the Indian market, months after being banned by the government due to national security concerns.

 

 PUBG Mobile to make a comeback in India, pumps $100mn into gaming

The immensely popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile app was among the 118 Chinese apps that the Indian government banned in September over security concerns. At that time, the mobile game was crowned with India’s top downloaded title having around 50 million users, reports suggest.

With its South Korean parent company Krafton, Inc., PUBG Corp also plans to make investments worth $100 million in India to cultivate the local video game, esports, entertainment, and IT industries, the company said.

To get the ban lifted, the South Korean developer has made the decision to no longer authorise the PUBG Mobile franchise to China-based Tencent Games in India. Confirming this on Thursday, PUBG Corp said it is preparing a new game— PUBG Mobile India, created specifically for the Indian market.

The Indian subsidiary will hire over 100 employees specialising in business, esports, and game development, PUBG Corp said. In addition to establishing a local office, the company will look to actively collaborate and leverage local businesses to strengthen its gaming service, it added.

The company also revealed plans to provide a secure and healthy gameplay environment alongside investments to cultivate local video game, esports, entertainment, and IT industries.

To assuage privacy and data security concerns, PUBG said it will conduct regular audits and verifications on the storage systems holding Indian users’ personally identifiable information to reinforce security and ensure that their data is safely managed. To build and foster a healthy gameplay environment, in-game content will be improved and tailored to reflect local needs, it added.

Various aspects of the game will be customized for Indian gamers, such as the game now being set in a virtual simulation training ground, new characters automatically starting clothed, and green hit effects to reflect the virtual nature of the game.

The PUBG Corporation, however, did not disclose the launch date of the game.

Find out the best features of the PUBG MOBILE 0.17.0 Season 12 update

PUBG Mobile is celebrating their second birthday and now they have released a new 0.17.0 update for the players. And in this update you also have the new theme "2gether Play Play" with Entertainment Park mode, new weapons, death rematch and a hardcoded mode .
This update will have 1.69Gb on Android and 1.9GB on iOS and you will need to get the latest updates for this game. And before March 6, the number of players you updated the game to receive 50 silver coins, 2,888 Battle Points and 3 day birthday pins.

Here are some of the best features

AMUSMENT PARK MODE

Developers have come up with a new Entertainment Park mode on AirAngel Map, which goes live on March 12. And in this mode there are three entertainment parks like Angle's Hot Game, Space Wire, Shooting Range and Tramplun.

This entertainment case features arcade motions that allow players to talk using tokens. And more Reverse Bungie will be parked on the machine, which will launch players into the air and glide using a Yung shoot.

Has DBS SHOTGUN

The new update includes the DBS Shotgun, a double barrel pop action shotgun that will be available through Airdrop. And it can be 14 rounds of 12 yards of ammo and it will be loaded. And it can be combined with the Heliographic Red Dot Vision R2X, 4X, and 6X scope.

ROYALE PASS Season 12

In the second year of PUBG Mobile, the Royal Season 12 kick off of the players has come to the "2gether We Play" theme. And the Royal Season Reward has been upgraded to a new season that will allow players to save items in birthday themes for two cents.

HARDCORE MODE is back again

Hardcode mode is back with a new 0.17.0 update to PUBG Mobile. And in this mode players will do everything manually and everything from opening ammunition to your weapon. Experienced players will think about it, and at this time it will have to be vigilant to see if the enemy is attacking.

DEATH REPLAY, UNIVERSAL MARK, COLOR BLIND MODE and more

The new update to PUBG Mobile brings the much-awaited Death feature that will be offered to players as a round. And here you can see well before the player wants mechanical information.

PUBG Update: PUBG Mobile Update 0.12.5, Season 7, Pets, Godzilla collab, Royale pass and more

PUBG Mobile season 7 is here and Sportskeeda brings all the latest content as part of this update.

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The sixth season of PUBG Mobile ended yesterday. The game received an update which brought with it Season 7 and a lot more stuff.

PUBG Mobile season 7 Royale pass is now available and has a bunch of new and awesome stuff. In addition to the new emotes and cosmetics, there is some unique stuff as well this time. Purchasing the Royale pass grants 600 UC which can be used to purchase it again next season. It also includes a new parachute and flight trail which is exclusive to Royale pass owners. Equipping this leaves behind a trail of smoke while diving or parachuting. Also, Royale pass owners will get a new appearance- the mustache which they can groom their characters with.

Most stuff about the PUBG Update was already leaked, courtesy of popular YouTuber- Mr. Ghost Gaming. So, you must be already be aware that a new weapon is coming to PUBG Mobile. The Skorpion is a machine pistol that fires 9mm rounds. It has dropped in all PUBG maps .

One of the main highlights of the new update is option to add pets as companions. You can select a pet, which are birds and it will be alongside you throughout your game. The bird does not do anything. It just gives you 'companionship'.

PUBG Mobile has also done a collaboration with Godzilla: King of the monsters. The film will be releasing on April 29 and its collaboration with PUBG Mobile is part of its publicity campaign. Players have spotted some T-shirts regarding the movie in the game. PUBG Mobile's twitter handle also tweeted about the same and asked players to parachute in to find clues to Godzilla's arrival. It is still unclear what these clues are and whether we will be seeing Godzilla in game.

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