Google is going to bring some serious gaming capabilities to the Android platform soon. This is based on careful examination of the Google Play Services v3.1.36 (pre-release APK) which has massive updates which have to do with gaming. This was uncovered by the folks over at Android Police. According to those guys, we are set to see tighter integration of this game platform with Google+ (surprise,...

Zapak has announced that its mobile games have clocked 100 million downloads on the Nokia Store. The mobile gaming division of Reliance Entertainment Digital has reached the 100 million mark from 50,000 in a span of 14 months. The gaming company shared that there were 22 games with over 1 million downloads that included games like Chhota Bheem Racing, Ninja Strike, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011,...

Games2Win has announced that it has raised an additional round of  funding to the tune of $2 million (Rs. 10 crore) from Clearstone Venture Partners, a US venture capital company. The gaming company which makes casual web games and has had great success with its mobile game, ‘Parking Frenzy’ has been pushing to expand its offerings on a global level due to the popularity of their games abroad. The...

Reliance Big Entertainment has announced that its international mobile gaming setup, Reliance Games has acquired mobile game development studios and publishers in Japan and Korea. Such a step was taken to expand Reliance Games and take it into the heart of geographical locations which have some of the highest number of mobile game players. The Japanese and Korean  markets are strategic ones to get...

Nvidia, a household name in the gaming industry, and a fairly new entrant into the SoC market, has just unveiled its latest offering in the form of Tegra 4 at the press conference at the international CES. This chip is touted to the world’s fastest mobile processor, packing in a phenomenal punch in performance while keeping the battery life long. The Tegra 4 is meant to power smartphones, tablets,...

Mobility Fund house One97 has liquidated its stake in Singapore based TheMobileGamer (TMG). The deal comprises of complete reshuffle of shares held by previous stock-holders. The newly issued shares will be equally held (41.08%) by telecom firm SingTel and Japan’s Softbank. TMG is primarily involved in developing mobile gaming software. It publishes social themed mobile games. These are subsequently...

The mobile gaming population has, for the first time, overtaken the one that plays on dedicated gaming consoles. Consumer market research company NPD has brought forth this revealing insight in its report titled ‘Gamer Segmentation 2012: See the Face of Gaming’. After years of sustained growth, the video game industry is now feeling the pinch as people are gradually shifting their game play from...

Major game development companies are now focusing their efforts towards the Indian sub-continent. After facing saturation & some cases even stagnation in the developed countries like USA, organizations like EA Sports is now trying to develop a market in India. Serious gaming has yet to take off on a large scale, but the conditions are just right for such a business to find many takers. With...

Jump Games has seen success with a set of games that they had exclusively developed for Indian audiences. The games are Border Wars, ICC Cricket, TM Moto Madness and others that are listed below. Jump Games has announced that they have reached more 1 million downloads each on Nokia’s OVI Store. All these games were made for the mobile which lends credence to the fact that mobile gaming is getting...

This blogpost has been re-posted from Games2Win’s official blog and is written by Alok Kejriwal, CEO and Co-Founder of Games2Win.  Background: On the 7th of June 2012, Games2win’s ‘Parking Frenzy’ – a free, casual, mobile game became the No.1 ranked app on the iTunes store in the USA under the ‘Top Free games’ and more significantly ‘Top Overall apps’ categories.   Source:...