Pune couple did a PUBG-themed pre-wedding shoot

  • | Monday | 17th December, 2018

One can a lso voice chat with the gaming team while playing. Besides PUBG, another smash hit has been Ludo King, a mobile game based on the classic board game . A game like Ludo King, Rao said, appealed to people of all age groups and had taken gaming from being a 'niche' entertainment genre to a mainstream one. A couple from Pune even did a PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG) themed pre-wedding shoot in October.The Indian gaming upswing started in 2016 as the augmented reality experience of Pokemon Go took the world by storm. It has become so popular amongst youth that Chennai's Vellore Institute of Technology recently issued a circular banning students from playing it.

One can a lso voice chat with the gaming team while playing. It has become so popular amongst youth that Chennai's Vellore Institute of Technology recently issued a circular banning students from playing it. Not only are PUBG tournaments organised all over the country, there are theme parties based on the game. A couple from Pune even did a PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG) themed pre-wedding shoot in October.The Indian gaming upswing started in 2016 as the augmented reality experience of Pokemon Go took the world by storm. Besides PUBG, another smash hit has been Ludo King, a mobile game based on the classic board game . The brainchild of Patna-born Vikash Jaiswal, it recorded over 180 million installations in 2018.Rajesh Rao, founder CEO of Dhruva Interactive and chair of the the India Game Developers Conference advisory committee, says the boom has come from smaller cities. A game like Ludo King, Rao said, appealed to people of all age groups and had taken gaming from being a 'niche' entertainment genre to a mainstream one. "Gaming in India has been generally about young and tech savvy people, but now it is a mass-market phenomena," he said.Data from Venture Intelligence, a firm that tracks VC/PE investments, showed that 2018 saw private investment of $116 million in new-age gaming startups compared to just $7 million of PE and VC funds that went into the sector in 2016.PUBG throws 100 players onto an island with scattered resources. Once the game starts, they need to find weapons to defend themselves with as the safe areas of the island begin to shrink. The last player or team surviving at the end of the round is the winner.

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