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Reliance ADAG’s Zapak.com has partnered with ad-supported mobile games distribution company Greystripe to make available Greystripe’s 900+ ad-supported mobile games and applications on zapak.mobi and zapak.com.

In effect this brings a sort of an app storefront concept just like Apple has one for their mobile users. Mobile gaming is big in India and ad supported mobile [...]

We caught up with Ashish Goel, COO of ACK Media the company which has big plans with their brand Amar Chitra Katha. We spoke to him about the launch of the website, ACK’s target audience, future plans, digital media and more. Here is the full interview:

Q) Will ACK Media only launch rehashed titles from the [...]

 WATShow is back and this week we catch up with Alok Kejriwal, the founder and CEO of Games2Win.
 
On a relatively funny and insightful episode, we asked Alok about:
 
1) Revenue Models Followed by Games2Win
2) Games2Win’s strategy to Make Games available on the Mobile Phone
3) Games2Win’s ‘Naughty’ Games as a ploy to attract the masses
(Alok says the games [...]

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 [...]

Games on celebrities have been in vogue since sometime now. But now the action has moved from male celeb oriented action games to female celeb oriented action games (possibly the lara croft effect?). So recently it was malaika arora for whom FX Labs had come out with Agni a PC Game and now its actress [...]

Not too long ago a question was asked by a representative of Hovr in one of the mobile monday gatherings. The question was
‘I am providing Mobile Games for download completely free of cost on my site – would I face resistance from you as an operator?’ directed at Mr. Harit Nagpal (Marketing Director, Hutch).
 
The answer [...]

Just last week Reliance Entertainment was in news with regards to tying up with Manchester United for the Mobile Gaming Company Jump Games. Reliance Entertainment President Mr.Rajesh Sawhney has disclosed to agencyfaqs the BIG (They do everything Big dont they.. think bigadda, bigflicks, bigfm and many more bigs to come!) plans when it comes to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Its year 2008 and what a coincidence! We just got done with the Episode 8 of WATShow!
So here is the Episode 08 of WATShow where we interview the CEO of yet another gaming company Jump Games! Earlier we had featured Mr.Vishal Gondal of Indiagames on WATShow.
This time we fired the following questions to Mr Salil [...]

Handygo has just launched a service that provides users to play games without downloading them directly on their cell phone and pay only for the amount of times they play the game.
Handygo is a provider of Value Added Services and space-based solutions in a wire-free world of Mobile telephony User is charged in advance for [...]

ET: We had earlier written about how indiagames was looking for funding and so it did get that funding from UTV which is now making strides into gaming and has acquired a controlling stake in Ignition Entertainment (Ignition) — UK-based console gaming company — and in Indiagames a mobile and broadband gaming company in India, for [...]

Economic Times: TOM Online Inc a leading wireless Internet company in China providing value-added multimedia products and services. is looking to sell its 62% stake in Mumbai-based Indiagames. The new investor is expected to pump in $25m in the company. it will be the largest investment in the fledgling Indian gaming industry.
Due to the [...]

Well we just had an article about online gaming.. Now if online gaming is booming how can mobile gaming be far behind when it comes to launching new exciting games. So Nazara Technologies, a mobile content developer, has announced the launch of two new games based on the country’s heart-throb, cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The [...]

Its seems that Paradox Studios is on a star signing spree when it comes to mobile games. The Mumbai Mirror reported that Paradox Studios have signed on South Superstar Madhavan for a lifestyle game featuring him as a pilot of the MIG planes. Madhavan said that he was signed on exclusively and no other actor [...]