PUBG Banned in Nepal Allude to Negative Impact on Children

Following a request from the Himalayan nation’s federal investigation authority, the regulator directed all internet service providers, mobile operators and network service providers to block streaming of PUBG.
PUBG Banned in Nepal Allude to Negative Impact on Children

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game company Bluehole.

The game is planted on previous mods that were constructed by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction.

In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed them. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.

PUBG recently grab so much attention by everyone whether he is 18+ or not and now Pub g is improving everything and recently he also declares the limitation of 6 hours for playing PUBG. And prior it was also seen that the PUBG is creating disaster children killing their parent and committing suicide.

After the negative impact spreading across the world and especially in India on the basis of this Government of India imposing ban on the game, starting from Gujarat and now in Nepal also.

Nepal on Thursday banned the popular online game Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), saying its violent content had a negative impact on children, an official said.

"We have ordered the ban on PUBG because it is addictive to children and teenagers," Sandeep Adhikari, deputy director at Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), the nation's telecoms regulator.

The ban comes into effect from Thursday, he said. It was launched in 2017 and has a huge global following.

Following a request from the Himalayan Nation's Federal Investigation Authority, the regulator directed all internet service providers, mobile operators and network service providers to block streaming of the game from Thursday onwards, Adhikari said.

Adhikari said so far there had been no reports of any incidents linked to the game. But he said parents were concerned about their children being distracted from their studies or other normal routine work.

The mobile version of PUBG offered by Tencent Games has been facing a backlash in India as well. Some cities in Gujarat even went ahead and banned PUBG Mobile for a few weeks. This led to arrests of some youths for playing PUBG Mobile despite the ban.

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