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Game on: How FAU-G plans to enter the space left vacant by PUBG

Bengaluru based start-up to develop desi version of multiplayer action game by October end

Game on: How FAU-G plans to enter the space left vacant by PUGB
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Gondal had released his first game on the Kargil war backdrop called Yodha in 2000, through his debut venture India Games, which was later sold to Disney for $100 million in 2012.

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
Barely 24 hours after Chinese gaming app PUBG along with many others was banned, serial entrepreneur Vishal Gondal has announced a desi alternative of the game called FAU-G. Vishal Gondal, who is advisor and investor in nCore Games, says the company was already building the product for the past six months and will be rolling it out by October.

“Games take time to build. You cannot make a game in 2-3 days. And we were definitely going to launch irrespective of the PUBG ban,” he says. Gondal who has been developing games since the age of 14, previously also founded

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