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Police In India Have Been Arresting Young Men For Playing Country’s Most Popular Video Game

MEDIA Posted: May 30, 2019 4:29 am

Video game culture in general in India is relatively new. So when PUBG (official name PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) skyrocketed in popularity in the months after its release, a nervous backlash developed among those given to moral panics, with warnings about the game’s violence and addictiveness. But the major cities in the state of Gujarat went farther, actually banning the game — and that ban wasn’t just for show. – BuzzFeed

MEDIA Published: 05.27.19

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