Post govt order, Google, Apple stores take down new PUBG avatar

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the rebranded version of PUBG Mobile from Korean game publisher Krafton, has been removed from Apple and Google app stores in India following a government order, according to sources aware of the development. The development has come a month after a 16-year-old boy allegedly shot his mother because she stopped him from playing “online games like PUBG”. This issue was also raised in the ongoing session of Parliament, where the government had said the Home Ministry was examining some of the banned apps appearing with a new avatar but with same functionality.