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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 [...]

TiE – IIM Event
 
TIE-Kolkata,IIM-Calcutta,Seedfund,IISc Bangalore,NEN & IIT-Kharagur. Are jointly organizing TiEGER ’08, an International Event on Entrepreneurial Awareness and Celebration of Entreprenuership in Eastern India.
 
The event goes step ahead of the traditional, academic business plan competitions, in that it provides a fund to the winning team and also provides them with mentoring for setting up [...]

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 [...]

Interestingly, Bajaj Allianz has come up with an online game, “Time Out”, developed by Contest2Win.com where you are taught to save early for your retirement plan. The game has its protagonist, Smart Alec collecting various coins (savings) as he progresses in the game. The player has to make sure that Smart Alec collects as many [...]

Nokia has plans to enter the internet service space. The revenues will be generated from advertisements. The service will offer songs, video clips, games and other downloadable stuff. Some of the “premium” content like new songs will not be free and Nokia India is structuring the pricing strategy for it. Under the brand name “Ovi”, [...]

Kreeda Games Bollywood based mass multiplayer online dance game Dance Mela has made it to the final list of 14 for Changemaker an initiative of ‘Ashoka: Innovators for the Public’ that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. DanceMela will compete with 13 countries and 75 games.
 
Kreeda was recently funded by IDG Venture [...]

Gaming portals are betting big on prepaid cards. With over 85% of India’s mobile-phone-population using prepaid connection, the strategy seems to work. Prepaid cards have been instrumental in the growth of telecom majors. Economic Times reports all three major online gaming websites, Zapak, Indiagames and Games2Win are going to introduce the prepaid mobile cards. Zapak [...]

                Microsoft is going to launch its XBox Live! service in India.
The Live has been an important part of the overall offering from Microsoft in the gaming domain.
So, what is Live ! ? According to Wikipedia “Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and content delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation”. It lets [...]

Zapak Plans to go global? 
Zapak.com which recently won the award for excellent work in ‘Branding’ at the Asia Brand Congress against nominees like google and naukri.com held in Mumbai on the 26th & 27th of this month has unvieled plans to go global by venturing into markets like China and Europe by launching gaming portals for those markets.
Zapak COO Talks [...]

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 [...]

Recently Bollywood superstar salman khan was arrested in the black buck shooting case. He stayed 6 days in prison and got free yesterday evening. But it seems like the salman jail and black buck fiasco has caught the imagination of the online world. So much so that a game has been dedicated to the entire [...]

According to a report by Parks Associates Playing games is still a more popular online activity in the US than watching short video clips or visiting social networking websites. According to the findings, 34 per cent of US adult Internet users play online games on a weekly basis, compared with 29 per cent who watch [...]

We mentioned that India’s largest portal had joined the Rs 21 crore online gaming bandwagon last week.

So what is Rediff Games all about?Currently they are in closed beta.
Click here to get a beta invitation.(You’ll require a Rediff / Rediffmail iD by the way)
It does get a little tedious after that - so we’ll recommend [...]

Zapak got a revamp recently and added an unlimited emailbox along with the other niche offerings like zapak girls and zapaktv. I also got a promotional mail from zapak (as im a subscribed member) informing about two free games i can download.
Besides for revamping the site zapak is planning to increase its offerings and [...]

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 [...]