CanvasM To Provide Mobile Multiplayer Games To Reliance Communications
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 in January, at the Digital India Summit, to expect lots of news from the company in the coming months, and here is one: they’ve tied up with Reliance Communications (RCom) to offer Multiplayer Mobile Games (MMG). As per the release, these are “cross-media” games, which allow users to compete with online, mobile and PC gamers playing the same game. CanvasM has a catalogue of 15 multiplayer games, and will provide international and domestic multiplayer games to RCom. The MMG has interactive features like chat (messenger, lobby and in-game), score posting, user profiles, among other things. The games are being charged at Rs. 99 per month for a pack of 3 games, with unlimited plays.
I was under the impression that, in India, we don’t have the mobile bandwidth for continuous play - that only turn based multiplayer gaming is possible. We’ve asked CanvasM for some clarifications, as well as more on their plans.
