Gaming

First Look At Web18s Horizontal Portal In.com - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 15 May 2008 07:58 AM PST

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for…

@NDTV NMC: Mainstream Digital Media; Display Beats Search Advertising? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 10:15 AM PST

Mainstream Digital Media? A term for us to consider - when asked about Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) position on spends on regional language content, Lloyd Mathias, Marketing Director for India &…

Reliance Entertainment’s Content Acquisition; Zapak Plans Merchandise, 500 Gameplexes - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 06:11 AM PST

An interesting insight from Kamal Gianchandani, COO of BigFlicks on content acquisition by the Reliance Entertainment. Gianchandani tells Indiantelevision.com in an interview that Reliance Entertainment has a central acquisition team,…

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Zapak, Jump To Launch Cricket Game Based On Ishant Sharma - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 05 May 2008 09:47 PM PST

Reliance Entertainment owned Zapak and Jump games continue their licensing streak. Both gaming divisions of ADAG will develop an online and mobile game respectively, based on cricketer Ishant Sharma. The…

Scrabulous To Launch Orkut App In The Next Few Days - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 11:45 PM PST

Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game and Facebook application from Kolkata based Agarwalla brothers, which hit the headlines after Hasbro and Mattel accused them of copyright violations, is all set to make…

Zapak Targets BRIC Countries; Jump In Talks For F1 Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 10:40 PM PST

We’ve heard often about Zapak Digital Entertainment, the online gaming company from the Reliance ADA Group, planning to launch a China site; the doors to China may have been opened…

Zapak Launches ZapakKids With Bhootnath; Webisodes Hosted By Kids - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Apr 2008 12:44 PM PST

Zapakkids.com, which has been around for many weeks now, has now been officially launched using Bhootnath as a tie-up announcement. The site currently offers movie tickets and movie merchandise as…

Sony Ties Up With 13 Indian Developers For PS2 Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:15 PM PST

Despite the advent of the powerful-but-expensive PS3, Sony (NYSE: SNE) appears to be keen on making the most of the success of the PS2 in India. There are around 325,000…

Webdunia Launches Local Language Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 03:21 AM PST

I just noticed that Webdunia, the local language portal from the Naidunia group of publications, has launched games. The games site is currently in beta. The interesting thing is that…

Pyramid Saimira Owned Aurona To Develop Game On Hanuman For PS2 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PST

Pyramid Saimira has informed the BSE that Aurona Technologies, a company that they had acquired earlier this year, has entered into an agreement with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe…

Zapak Gets Shanda’s Racing MMOG Crazy Kart To India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:04 AM PST

Well, the news is finally, finally out: Zapak, Reliance Entertainments online gaming company has acquired the exclusive licence for operating Crazy Kart, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMOG) Game from Shanda,…

Ubisoft Acquires Gameloft’s Dev Center In Pune - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Apr 2008 06:34 AM PST

Ubisoft, one of the worlds largest game developers has inked a deal to acquire Gameloft’s (EPA: GFT) development center in Pune. The dev centre has 120 developers and testers who…

Indiagames Gets Exclusive India Rights For Two PopCap Games; Develops Game For VH1 - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 06 Apr 2008 10:19 PM PST

A couple of updates regarding Indiagames, in which UTV owns a majority stake: the company has announced an exclusive deal to distribute two key titles from PopCap Games on the…

@ CTIA: Video Interview With Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames: Not a Big Fan of Mobile Advertising - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:58 PM PST

At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming…

Zapak Claims 70-75 Percent Marketshare; Kancha Tournament; MMOG Launch Delayed - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 10:30 PM PST

Reliance ADA Group company Zapak.com has claimed that they have around 70-75 percent of the Indian online gaming market, with a user base of 4 million. Rohit Sharma, COO of…

@FICCI Frames: BCCI And MSM Planning A Fantasy Cricket League Around IPL; Bearish On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Mar 2008 01:45 AM PST

This is big: responding to ContentSutra’s question about MultiScreen Media’s upcoming New Media Initiatives, CEO Kunal Dasgupta said that the company is working with the Board of Control for Cricket…

FX Labs Launches PC Game; Ties Up With Sify, Zapak - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 24 Feb 2008 07:36 PM PST

FX Labs has launched Agni, it’s first PC adventure game featuring Bollywood celebrity Malaika Arora Khan as the protagonist. Agni is a third person shooter Role Playing Game, with 10…

Trine Studios Launches Streets Of Mumbai; CEO Sangam Gupta On VC Funding
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:54 PM PST

When was the last time you saw an empty Mumbai street? Maybe in the middle of the night...Mumbai based Trine Game Studios has officially launched their racing game called Streets…

Zapak Launches Cartoon Network Games, Fantasy Cricket Game - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Feb 2008 04:22 AM PST

Zapak, Reliance Entertainment’s casual gaming portal, has launched casual games from the Cartoon Network stable. Zapak currently features 17 games, while Cartoon Network’s own site has 32. Interesingly, not many…

CanvasM To Provide Mobile Multiplayer Games To Reliance Communications - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Feb 2008 03:27 AM PST

I’ve been wondering for a while about what CanvasM, the joint venture between Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Tech Mahindra, has been up to. CanvasM CEO Jadgish Mitra had told me…

Indiagames To Bring Bioshock To Mobile - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:25 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Rapture! Having completed Bioshock on the boX, this comes as news whose emotional outcome, like global warming (for purpose of reference), is one that lies in deep-seated…

Games2Win Games Launched On Nautanki.tv Network
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Feb 2008 04:29 AM PST

Games2Win, the casual gaming co funded by Clearstone Venture Partners and SVB Financial, has launched flash based casual games on nautanki.tv’s widget network. Nautanki.tv was launched as a video content…

Indiatimes Launches Ad-Supported Mobile Gaming Powered by Hovr - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 04 Feb 2008 05:05 AM PST

Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) has launched GameZone, a free ad-supported gaming portal on the mobile powered by mobile gaming company Hovr. This is similar (if not identical) to the Greystripe-Anand…

Jump Games To Develop Games On Manchester United - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Jan 2008 09:21 PM PST

Well, this is a big deal all right: Jump Games, a Reliance Entertainment company, has acquired the exclusive global rights for developing games for football club Manchester United (ManUtd). The…

Pyramid Saimira Acquires Game Development Co Aurona Techonogies - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Jan 2008 03:57 AM PST

Pyramid Saimira has acquired a majority stake in Aurona Technologies, a game development and interactive entertainment software company headquartered in London. They develop content for the PS2, Nintendo DS and…