Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain...
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China’s Tencent has announced that it is working with Bluehole to port Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) to mobile. PUBG has been a runaway success on the Windows PC. At last count, the game was averaging 1.3 million players a month on gaming platform Steam.
The game has far surpassed titles like DOTA 2and CS: GO, both of which have been top-charters on Steam. The game has sold over 20 million copies so far.
Tencent, which is currently the sole distributor for PUBG in China, announced the project in a press release that was later picked up by Polygon. Polygon notes that Tencent promises to ensure that the game reflects “socialist core values, Chinese traditional culture and moral rules”.
PUBG is a Battle Royale
-style game, where dozens of players are dumped on a map and forced to scavenge for equipment and resources while being funnelled towards a central location. And everyone is hostile.
-style game, where dozens of players are dumped on a map and forced to scavenge for equipment and resources while being funnelled towards a central location. And everyone is hostile.
Other games like Fortnite have tried to copy PUBG’s style, and as Polygon notes, there are already several PUBG clones on the Chinese mobile marketplace. How well Tencent manages to port a shooter like PUGB to the mobile platform is another matter entirely. Shooting games are hard enough to play on a console’s limiting control scheme, and mobile phones aren’t exactly better suited to the task.
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