Business Insider, A married woman searched YouTube to find a route into India to be with a lover she met on a popular video game: ‘She was not impressed by his work, but by his PUBG skills,’ police said, 9 July 2023 “A woman made a risky trek into India with her four children to be with a man she met through a popular battle royale game known as PUBG.” Originally reported in NYT.
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