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PUBG Mobile scrapped in China for the patriotic battle royale Game for Peace
Tencent replaces one of the world’s most popular games amid China’s cleanup of violent content
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This article originally appeared on ABACUS
Chinese people are obsessed with battle royale games. But their government is equally obsessed with cleaning up violence and gore in games.
This is why Tencent recently decided to scrap PUBG Mobile, which has an estimated 186 million users in China, and replace the app with a new one called Game for Peace.
PUBG, the battle royale pioneer
Yup: One of the biggest shooting games in the world, in a genre where people literally use guns to battle to the death, is now called Game for Peace.
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We played both games, which are developed by Tencent’s Lightspeed & Quantum Studios. The two are essentially the same game, except Game for Peace has no blood, no gore and no death.
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This is not a joke. When you’re shot in Game for Peace, you won’t see any blood spilling out of your avatar. Instead, you simply get flashes of green light. And when your enemies eliminate you, you simply kneel and wave until eventually disappearing from the battlefield. (It’s a Game for Peace, remember?)
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