The Transition from PUBG to FAUG

'Winner Winner Chicken Dinner' - To all those PuB-G fans, missing out on Chicken dinner, you all may settle on SAB-G for now. Because it's time to be AtmaNirbhar and await the launch of FAU-G (Fearless And United - Gaurds) by Mr. Khiladi (Akshay Kumar) and nCore games - a strategic move towards 'Made in India' initiative of the government. The best part about this would be that besides entertainment, 20 percent of the net revenue generated would be donated to Bharat ke Veer Trust. The objective of this multiplayer action game is to sensitize the audience towards the endless sacrifices made by our real time heroes - the soldiers.

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Although the recent ban by the government on PUBG is heartbreaking to many; the social media has been flooded with memes and videos since the announcement that exhibits our creativity to the fullest! Leaving the jokes apart, banning PUBG and other 117 apps that possessed threat to national sovereignty and integrity of the country, is a rational move by the government or many may call it a well planned strategic move by the government to make a way for AtmaNirbhar Bharat.

The quarantine phase in this lockdown has honed our gaming skills like never before! With the outbreak of the pandemic, the online gaming industry has seen an exponential rise in the users. Every major gaming or e-sports app has reported a surge of 80-100% during the period of March – June.

Games were once viewed as a recreational activity and a means to beat the boredom. But this gaming culture has changed so much and the gaming industry has gone through a huge transition and has evolved with the changing time. It's fascinating to see how we have moved from on-the-field games to video games with the advent of personal computers in 1990s in India, to this day of 3D games on our smart phones. It was a long journey - with every on-the-field game (once played by many), having it's replica in an online game. 

With a lot of trolls, memes and videos over the social media from PUBG lovers, its too early to comment if FAUG will be able to attract the set of loyal players of PUBG. It's time to wait and watch until it's release in October 2020. 

Till then have some SAB-G ;)

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