A brand new poster for ‘Battlegrounds Cellular’ was posted and subsequently deleted, nonetheless the social community handles have been renamed
Earlier, the sport’s relaunch in India was teased in a video which was additionally subsequently deleted
Krafton, the sport’s guardian firm, is but to make an official announcement relating to the sport’s India launch date
Widespread multiplayer on-line battle enviornment online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG Cellular could also be set for a relaunch in India, beneath a brand new identify, Battlegrounds Cellular India. The sport’s official India Fb web page has modified its username to ‘BattlegroundsMobileIN’.
A brand new artistic poster for the sport beneath its new identify ‘Battlegrounds Cellular’ has additionally been doing the rounds on social media after it was put up by the makers of the sport after which deleted. Earlier too, the makers had teased the relaunch of the sport in India by means of a video which was subsequently deleted as effectively.
Krafton, PUBG Cellular’s guardian firm, is but to make an official announcement relating to the sport’s India launch date.
Speculations concerning the relaunch of PUBG Cellular in India have been rife since late final 12 months. The sport was banned in September final 12 months by the Indian authorities as a part of its crackdown on Chinese language apps believed to jeopardising the information privateness of Indian customers. PUBG, whose mental property is owned by South Korea-based Krafton (earlier PUBG Company), fell into the web as China-based Tencent Video games was PUBG Cellular’s distribution companion in India.
After the ban, PUBG Company revoked its ties with Tencent in India and introduced that it could launch an India-specific model of PUBG Cellular with native gameplay parts. The corporate additionally mentioned that it could arrange an India entity, the place it would make investments $100 Mn to assist the native esports ecosystem.
Final month, Inc42 reported that PUBG Company was hiring for numerous positions together with senior advertising and marketing supervisor, product supervisor, affiliate director, publishing enterprise operations, video editor and funding analysts. All these openings had been for the Bengaluru workplace.
Nevertheless, the Indian authorities’s place on the relaunch of an utility that it had banned stays unclear. Final 12 months, in replies to RTI queries, the federal government had said that it hadn’t given permission to PUBG Company for relaunching PUBG Cellular in India.
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The story has been up to date to mirror the earlier occasion of the corporate eradicating promotional materials associated to PUBG Cellular’s India return.