Indian cities crack down on PUBG over fear of creating psychopaths

India does not have much of a history with popular computer games, unlike the US or Japan. But now one of the industry’s kill-or-be-killed titles has become a smash hit — and the backlash from the country’s traditionalists is ferocious.

PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds is a Hunger Games-style competition where 100 players face off with machine guns and assault rifles until only one is left standing. After China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. introduced a mobile version of the death match that’s free to play, it has become the most popular smartphone game in the world, with enthusiasts from the US to Russia to Malaysia.

Nowhere has resistance to the game been quite like India. Multiple cities have banned PUBG, as it is known, and police in west India arrested 10 university students for playing the game. The National Child Rights Commission has recommended barring the game for its violent nature.

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