when did pubg mobile come out in china
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Following the Chinese publication deal for the Windows version, Tencent Games and PUBG Corporation additionally announced that they were planning on releasing two mobile versions based on the game in the country.[70][71] The first, PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield, is an abridged version of the original game, and was developed by Lightspeed & Quantum Studio, an internal division of Tencent Games.[72] The second, PUBG: Army Attack, includes more arcade-style elements, including action taking place on warships, and was developed by Tencent's Timi Studio.[73] Both versions are free-to-play, and were released for Android and iOS devices on February 9, 2018.[74][75] The games had a combined total of 75 million pre-registrations, and ranked first and second on the Chinese iOS download charts at launch.[75] Following a soft launch in Canada, an English version of Exhilarating Battlefield known as PUBG Mobile, was released worldwide on March 19, 2018.[76][77][78]