Gaming

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…

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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 - 2 Comments
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…

Scrabulous’ Fate To Be Decided Today? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:26 PM PST

Hectic negotiations are underway between Hasbro, Scrabulous and Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), and one might either see the Kolkata based Agarwalla brothers either sell or shut down the application today,…

Kreeda Ties Up With NDTV Imagine For Nachle Ve
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Jan 2008 07:56 PM PST

Can’t say we didn’t see this coming: Kreeda Games has tied up with NDTV Imagine for their dance show ‘Nachle Ve’, reports exchange4media. This is for their massively multiplayer online…

Scrabble Makers Order Facebook To Take Down Scrabulous - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Jan 2008 02:36 AM PST

Hasbro and Mattel, the marketers of Scrabble, are accusing the creators of popular Facebook app Scrabulous of violating the copyright on the 70-year-old word game and are demanding that the…

Indiatimes Re-launches Gaming: Same Old Stuff, New Skin - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Jan 2008 08:00 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] So they come out of the woodwork. Everyone’s favourite punching bang has re-launched its gaming section. I noticed they had dedicated gaming servers and tried them out.…

Stats On Games On Demand Users From Indiagames - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 01:01 AM PST

Indiagames’ Games on Demand service has reached 10,000 paid subscribers, and the company has shared some data on the gaming habits on its users: -- Total gameplay over the entire…

7Seas Acquires Neodelight; To Raise Funds For $20 Million Investment In Gaming - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 Jan 2008 10:28 PM PST

7Seas Technologies, a Hyderabad based gaming company listed on the Hyderabad and Ahmedabad Stock Exchanges, has reportedly acquired Neodelight, the gaming division of German co Neokolor. It’s an all cash…

Games2Win Launches CT Racer On Indiagames’ Games On Demand - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 03:50 AM PST

Games2Win has tied up with Indiagames to make CT Racer Online, a community based online racing game they’d launched recently, available on Indiagames’ Games on Demand Service, as per a…

“We Don’t Reveal Country Specific Numbers,” Says A Defiant Mohit Anand - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 11:06 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] The Hindu has an interview with Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Mohit Anand, Country Manager (India) for their Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD). All Microsoft Hardware products in India…

Proposal To Censor Games In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Jan 2008 02:33 AM PST

Update: High placed sources inform us that there was never any proposal by the Censor Board; rather: the chairperson of the Censor Board had her own issues with violence in…

Zapak To Launch Chinese Site; In-game Ads And Advergaming Was 25-30% Of Revenue In ‘07 - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Jan 2008 10:12 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Plans are afoot to “step into the Chinese online casual gaming market with a Chinese website,” Zapak COO Rohit Sharma tells exchange4media. For their MMOG, in partnership…

Will the BIG Bang Happen? - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jan 2008 09:05 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] It has been an eventful year for Reliance Entertainment in the digital space. According to this interview, Zapak is currently the top gaming website on Comscore (NSDQ:…

Updated: Sony Denies Zapak Buying SOE - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 22 Dec 2007 10:55 PM PST

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for…

A Tie-Up With Level Up Brings Ragnarock And Gunz To Indiagames’ GoD Service
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 17 Dec 2007 07:50 PM PST

A tie up with Level Up, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) distributor in India, gives Indiagames two more MMOGs for their Games on Demand service: Ragnarok and Gunz. Earlier…

FXLabs Acquires Casual Gaming Aggregator Knibble For $3 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 16 Dec 2007 10:40 PM PST

Well, I was trying to break this story, and the release went live: FXLabs, a Hyderabad based gaming and animation company, has acquired IMT Inc, a US based company that…

UTV Buys Controlling Interest in Indiagames - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 14 Dec 2007 08:49 AM PST

UTV, through its UK subsidiary, has bought a controlling stake in Indiagames. UTV first bought into a majority in Indiagames late last year, for about Rs 68 crore, which it…

NatGeo Launches Game Portal Powered By Zapak; Some Gaming Stats - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Dec 2007 05:26 AM PST

The National Geographic Channel’s has launched a website for its series “My Brilliant Brain”, which has been powered by the Reliance ADA Group’s online gaming company Zapak.com (release). The site…