China’s Tencent drops PUBG, offers ‘Game for Peace’

Chinese tech and games giant Tencent on Wednesday ceased offering the hugely popular multi-player combat game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” which has been targeted for bans in three other countries.

PUBG pits marooned characters against one another in a virtual fight to the death, and has become one of the world’s most popular mobile games.

But authorities in Iraq, Nepal and Gujarat have moved to ban it over fears that it incited violence.

Tencent had been offering a mobile version of “PUBG Mobile” — which is published by a subsidiary of South Korean firm Bluehole — for about a year.