As the year winds to a close, Google Play has announced its “Best of 2018” list, highlighting the most popular downloads from US-based Android users. There are few surprises here. Clinching Google Play’s “Best Game of 2018” award, as well as the “Fan Favorite” game trophy is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile. That’s hardly shocking. The ‘battle royale‘ format is hugely popular right now, and although PUBG’s star has waned somewhat in the past few months, its launch on Android wasn’t quite as shambolic as that of Epic’s Fortnite. (That said, Fortnite didn’t launch on the Google Play store in the…

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