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PUBG: Battlegrounds (previously known as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) is a 2017 battle royale video game published by Krafton, and developed by Krafton's PUBG Studios.The game, which was inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000), is based on previous mods created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction.
Krafton Inc. (Korean: 주식회사 컴퍼니 크래프톤) is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Bundang District, Seongnam.It was created in November 2018 to serve as the parent company for Bluehole, founded by Chang Byung-gyu in Seoul in March 2007, and its subsidiaries.
Following its release, a Taiwanese version of the game, PUBG Mobile TW, was released. A version meant for lower-end mobile devices, PUBG Mobile Lite, was released on 25 July 2019. [26] [27] This has support for high FPS gameplay on multiple Android devices and features a smaller map made for 60 players. [28]
After the release of Arma 3, Greene started working on a modification for the game, named PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale.The mod followed the same basic last-man standing principle of the Battle Royale DayZ mod, while introducing some features like the airplane that dropped players across a wider terrain and an online leaderboard.
For the latest installment of David Pogue's Rated:App, a review of Player Unknown: Battlegrounds, better known as PUBG, a battle-royale game that's already popular on the PC and console.
On 2 September 2020, [15] the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India banned PUBG Mobile, along with 117 Chinese applications, [16] citing activities that were prejudicial and a threat to India's sovereignty, integrity, defence, state security, and public order [16] under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
New State Mobile (formerly PUBG: New State) is a multiplayer online battle royale video game developed by PUBG Studios and published by Krafton. The game was released on November 11, 2021, for iOS , iPadOS and Android through the App Store , Google Play and Samsung Galaxy Store .
On July 1, 2022, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority banned PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) after a teenager allegedly shot his family of four after binging the video game for days. [208] The ban caused turmoil among the youth, whose protests mounted pressure against the regulator.