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Well in our november events update we missed on one of the important gaming events taking place this month. So here is a mid month update on the same.
India Gaming Summit 2008: Intel and Zapak are all set to take a close look at the Gaming industry this year again with Intel & Zapak India [...]

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 [...]

Is Zapak.com, the online gaming portal owned by the mighty Reliance ADAG group, failing in its plan? Downloadable games, that is? This report by Business Standard hints something towards this. Reportedly, Zapak’s now offering the gaming CDs to beat the lukewarm response for its online downloadable games.
Rohit Sharma, chief operating officer, Zapak Digital Entertainment said
“The [...]

Reliance-ADAG group’s Zapak has launched what appears to be an aggregator of Flash games online. The website, Zapakworld.com does not contains games from Zapak.com. With reportedly more than 12000 games, Zapakworld.com claims to be the biggest online flash game aggregator in the world.
I visited the website and it had the same colorful look that Zapak.com [...]

Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there.

The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the market these days and the games have been designed [...]

Games2win has added another feature to its cap. After it was recently reported that its slapster game on orkut which they claim has had 1 million installations to date. Games2win has gone ahead and launched an ad network for gaming sites called Inviziads (thanks Eka for the tip off). Now while ad network’s are a [...]

Zapak.com, Reliance ADAG owned online gaming portal, has earned the exclusive rights to distribute toy merchandise from the Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra starrer futuristic sci-fi movie, LoveStory 2050

An Indian woman is the most influential member of a family and games aimed at her could be the best opportunity to target the whole family. Kids would be attracted to play games suggested by their mother. Usually its mothers who stop their children from playing, and imagine if mothers themselves start playing, then there’s [...]

Here comes a national award for creating computer games. No more shall your mother stop you from playing games on the internet neither shall she freak out when you tell her that you develop computer games for your living. Why? Well, now even the United Nations has recognized the impact a little flash game can [...]

We had reported earlier about Zapak’s interest in the Russian, Chinese and West Asian Markets but it seems like the company is looking to recruit hardcore US gamers as well.
 
Zapak is holding discussions with 6 companies at this point of time – 2 Chinese companies and 3 – 4 US based companies. The names of these [...]

After creating zones for the Kolkatta Knight Riders and a Game Based on Ishant Sharma, Zapak has also launched ZapakCricket.com.
  
All of Zapak’s cricket games are available on Zapak Cricket. There has been no official press release about the same from Zapak neither has anyone in the blogosphere written about this. Moreover on the Zapak portal it says ‘Just [...]

FXLabs Studios, one of the leading end-to-end game companies in India announced yesterday that the company has partnered with Indyarocks, to create what it claims to be India’s largest casual gaming community.
 
This partnership will create a gaming platform with more than 5,000 online casual games. The companies claim that the platform will also allow independent game [...]

Zapak Digital Entertainment is looking at merchandising as a way to to push growth. The gameplan is to launch merchandise around the various games on offer. It’s not clear if those games will include those developed for Zapak’s partners and affiliates such as Cartoon Network, The Kolkatta Knight Riders, the MTv Roadies Show among others. It seems unlikely.
 
The merchandise will [...]

Once again, after a long weekend Siesta, WATShow is back! We caught up with Mr. Rohit Sharma, the COO of Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited.
 
 
We tried to get a few insights from Rohit Sharma by questioning him about:
1)    Zapak’s Applications on Social Networks
2)    Zapak’s movement away from gaming to entertainment and email
3)    Future of Zapak Girls
4)    [...]

Zapak.com has announced a special gaming destination for kids called ‘Zapak Kids’, which is targeted at kids up to 14 years of age. This segment contributes almost 25 per cent of the traffic on the gaming portal. Zapak Kids will offer a portfolio of over 70 games with edutainment, a virtual world for kids and kids-specific community [...]