Gaming

Quatrro Acquires BPO UK-based Gaming Outsourcing Firm Babel Media - 0 Comments
Posted By VCCircle - Tue 01 Jul 2008 08:51 AM PST

In its sixth and the biggest acquisition till date, Raman Roy-led Quatrro BPO, backed by US-based hedge fund DE Shaw Group, has acquired British firm Babel Media, a provider of…

BCCI Gets Restraining Order Against Online Fantasy Cricket League, Rediff; Why Rediff? - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 28 May 2008 05:32 AM PST

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has got an interim injunction from the Madras High Court, restraining Sandeep Goel (of the Indian Fantasy League) and Rediff.com from…

CDI Sells IP Rights Of Animated Character To Golden Games For $1.65 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 28 May 2008 12:58 AM PST

BSE listed Animation outsourcing company Compact Disc India (CDI) has informed the stock exchange that they’ve sold the IP rights to an animated character “Joker” (via Hindu) to Singapore based…

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Indiagames Acquires Multiple Rights For Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 01:55 PM PST

Indiagames has acquired rights for mobile, PC and interestingly Interactive Television (DTH and IPTV) rights for Star’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain (Are You Smarter Than A Fifth…

Tyroo Launches Gaming Inventory; Ties Up With Miniclip - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 25 May 2008 09:50 PM PST

Tyroo has launched a gaming channel that includes inventory from the likes of Miniclip, Ultimatearcade and Cheatcodes.com among others. It proposes to target four million unique users belonging to an…

AOL India Launches South Cinema Channel; Stick Cricket Game - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 22 May 2008 08:52 AM PST

AOL India has tied up with Galatta.com for movie content related to South India, an AOL (NYSE: TWX) spokesperson confirmed to ContentSutra. The recently launched South Cinema channel features content…

Sci-Fi Flick Love Story 2050 To Launch PC Game - 11 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 20 May 2008 09:03 PM PST

You are reading it here first. The approximately Rs 60 crore expensive futuristic love story starring newcomer Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra will be launching a PC game as well.…

XBox 360 Fails To Sell In India; MS To Wind Up Ops In Tier-I Cities: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 19 May 2008 04:48 PM PST

As far as India is concerned, the xBox is the x’ed Box, if this report from CNBC-TV18 is to be believed. The console has apparently been such a dismal failure…

Vaporware: Zapak Talking To Six U.S. and Chinese Companies on Acquisition - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 18 May 2008 07:35 PM PST

Zapak is indulging in vapor talk again: Anil Ambani-owned gaming firm Zapak Digital Entertainment says it is in talks with about six gaming companies in U.S. and China for acquisition.…

First Look At Web18s Horizontal Portal In.com - 11 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,…

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…