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Indiagames To Foray Into Casual & Social Gaming - Chirag Shah (Ex-Zapak) To Be CEO

Indiagames To Foray Into Casual & Social Gaming – Chirag Shah (Ex-Zapak) To Be CEO

The gaming industry seems to be getting more and more competitive day by day with one gaming company key executives joining others. The other trend is the rise of social gaming which is taking shape in India with ibibo, zapak and now indiagames all having social elements or social networking entwined in their games.

Our sources [...]

Now Play IPL Game On Facebook Developed By Indiagames

Now Play IPL Game On Facebook Developed By Indiagames

IPL will begin from tomorrow and if you are a gamelover specially cricket then you must play this new official IPL T20 game. Developed by Indiagames.

To play this game online, you just need to have IE6 (or higher) or Firefox 3.6 (or higher) and a Facebook account. After login through Facebook connect, you will be [...]

Reliance BigTV And Indiagames Tie Up For DTH Gaming, Is Zapak Dead Already?

Reliance BigTV And Indiagames Tie Up For DTH Gaming, Is Zapak Dead Already?

Reliance BigTV, DTH arm of Reliance Communications have inked a strategic agreement with UTV’s Indiagames, to provide DTH gaming to their consumers. As a part of this agreement, Indiagames, in strategic partnership with their US-based Ally Oberon Media, will provide the popular games series currently available on PC, Web, and other gaming platforms to the [...]

Recap 2008: Online & Mobile Gaming

Recap 2008: Online & Mobile Gaming

Online gaming has been heavily invested in since Reliance ADAG’s Zapak.com came onto the scene in 2006 and started investing crores of rupees in this business. 2008 was a year in which online gaming players forged tie ups, went mobile and also chalked out plans to go international. The top online gaming sites of India [...]

Paanchvi Paas To Debut On Indiagames.com and DTH Soon..

Paanchi Paas might have been termed as Paanchvi Fail by Amitabh Bachchan on his controversial blog but that hasn’t stopped the people behind Paanchvi to look at ways to extend their reach beyond the regular TV audience to other niche audiences through the use of new media.

Indiagames Tie Up With Popcap For Mobile Distribution Deal

Indiagames which was recently in the news for games on demand in the edutainment space which was in collaboration with Airtel has struck another notworthy deal. It has announced its partnership with the international casual gaming company PopCap Games for distributing key titles from PopCap’s catalogue of games on the mobile platform in India.

Indiagames will [...]

Indiagames Targets To Educate Children With Video Games

Now, get ready to check up your son’s monthly gaming report cards. Indiagames have launched an ‘edutainment’ gaming package for the pre-teens. The company has also joined hands with Airtel who have agreed to cater the service and it will cost a subscriber just Rs 99 a month, which will be added up in their [...]

Indiagames & Games2win Surveys on Gaming: Small Towns, Prime Time & American Girl Insights!

Two gaming companies Games2win and Indiagames have done their individual research and came out with two very different and interesting insights on gaming.
Here are the insights from the indiagames survey on more than 10,000 paid subscribers of its Games on Demand (GoD) subscription:

Mobile gaming saw growth of users from smaller towns and at lower price [...]

Online and Offline Gaming- A Threat to TV?

Gaming in India is booming. As per nasscom, The Indian gaming industry was estimated at nearly $48 million in 2006-07; and is expected to cross $424 million by 2010, representing a CAGR of 72% over 2006-2010.
 
Types of Games
 
Gaming in all three categories — mobile, online and console gaming is showing a dramatic increase [...]

Zapak Gameplex Championship

 

Zapak announced Zapak Gameplex Championship in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.. A gaming tournament for Indian gamers. Zapak is being very aggressive in promoting gaming amongst Indians. Reliance already had a stint at organizing such tournaments way back when it launched the gaming tournaments in its Web World stores across the country. This move [...]

Indian Companies Penetrate The Red Herring Global 200!

We had blogged about the Asia top 100 emerging companies list which was announced by red herring in August 2007. Now Red Herring has gone ahead and announced the global 200 list which will further be short listed to the final 100 and quite a few indian companies have penetrated this list.
Here is the list [...]

Online Gaming penetrates Banks, Ministry & The World!

Online Gaming is booming in India! Atleast thats what you will feel after you read this post.. Now the use of gaming and its status in India both of these might change in the future..
ICICI Bank uses games for elearing 
Firstly lets start with an innovative use of online games. ICICI Bank is using online games [...]

Gaming tie ups: Indiagames and Games2win in tie up mode with Microsoft and Animax

It seems like its tie up season when it comes to online gaming players. In two separate deals Indiagames and Games2win have gone ahead with tie ups.
Indiagames tied up with microsoft for the online retailing of the popular console game Xbox 360. This partnership will empower indiagames to sell Xbox 360 and other Microsoft peripherals through [...]

Games2win.com gets 5 Million $ in funding!

The online gaming scene seems to be hotting up day by day. After zapak’s huge media spend and indiagames acquisition by UTV it seems like its the turn of another gaming player to join the league of the big boys.
Mumbai-based Games2win.com announced Wednesday it had raised about $5 million from leading U.S. venture capital firms [...]

Multiplayer online games to boom!

Zapak.com wants to launch 3 while Indiagames.com is looking to launch 4 more! Thats the number of Massively Multiplayer Online Game’s (MMOG’s) that both these companies are looking to launch! And thats not all add to that the competition by Sify’s A3india.com and Indiatimes supported Levelupgames.co.in and you know all the gamers are in for [...]