Nepal, April 19 -- At first, the kid seemed like any other kid his age - head down engrossed in his mobile phone as we sat in a hotel lobby. Then started what can only be described as frantic, almost hysterical screaming at his phone as he started relaying instructions to someone via his earpiece imploring them to go left, right, or kill. This weird spectacle last year was my first encounter with Player Unknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG, as it's commonly called. Since then it has gone on to become a sensation and along the way garnered perhaps more than its fair share of notoriety with even Narendra Modi apparently aware of its ill-effects.

But while playing time is India has been capped at six hours apparently, the authorities in Nepal ha...