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Tech



                                                                                             How did this
                                                                                             strange
                                                                                             genre of
                                                                                             video games
                                                                                             grow so
                                                                                             wildly
                                                                                             popular and
                                                                                             prof table?





























                                 Inside





                                 the Battle




                                 Royale                                           By Abhijit Asad





                                 Rings









                                 The battle royale fever has   popularly known as PUBG,   at the mention of PUBG
                                 indeed gone global, and it has   whenever they have some   anywhere in the vicinity. And
                                 long escaped the confines of   time to kill. And indeed,   while PUBG is perhaps the
                                 computers or consoles. Pretty   killing – albeit in cyberspace   most widespread and popular
                                 much anyone with a          – is what keeps the battle   among these games, there are
                                 smartphone is out to eagerly   royale fires going. The genre   many others which have
                                 take names and kick         has seen a ridiculous degree   followings that are just as
                                 posteriors in               of success over the last few   rabid, and the number of such
                                 PlayerUnknown’s             years, and even semi-literate   games is growing steadily.
                                 Battlegrounds, more         street urchins’ faces light up   So what’s the deal with battle


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