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PUBG's India return: Can it recreate magic if the ban is revoked?

The creator of the super-popular Korean gaming app has readjusted its organisational structure to return to India

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PUBG Corp has also announced an investment worth $100 mn in India to cultivate the local video game, e-sports, and entertainment industries

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
Last week, PUBG Corporation, creator of the super-popular eponymous game, announced its return to India in a mobile avatar after a ban of over two months. Since then, the announcement on its official India Instagram handle has seen over 1.4 million likes. 
 
TapTap, a mobile game-sharing community that recommends high quality mobile games to users, has begun pre-registration of the new game and data shows that it has seen over 200,000 user registrations already. While there is no official notification from PUBG Corp on any such pre-registration, the numbers underline the popularity of the game in India, notwithstanding the anti-China

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