FAU-G, a made-in-India alternative to PUBG Mobile, was announced on Friday by Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. The game is being published by Bengaluru-based nCore games.
FAU-G is short for Fearless and United-Guards, and tweets say it will donate 20 percent of its revenue to the government’s fund-raising initiative Bharat Ke Veer, a trust started by Kumar
The announcement comes close on the heels of the government ban on PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite alongside other 116 mobile apps in the country that had a linkage with China. The game was quite popular among young Indian mobile gamers.
Akshay Kumar promoted the development of FAU-G through Twitter. It is touted to be a contribution towards the “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” (self-reliant India) campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
