Indiagames has acquired rights for mobile, PC and interestingly Interactive Television (DTH and IPTV) rights for Star’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain (Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?). The tri-party deal with Bulldog Media, Star TV and Indiagames gives Indiagames the right to publish ancillary content including…

A couple of updates regarding Indiagames, in which UTV owns a majority stake: the company has announced an exclusive deal to distribute two key titles from PopCap Games on the mobile in India - Bookwork and Chuggle Bookworm and Chuzzle. Indiagames had earlier struck a deal with PopCap last year…

At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming firm. I asked about IG’s forays into U.S. (via its I.G. Fun subsidiary here), the changing mobile gaming market, the…

[by Cerius Shah] Rapture! Having completed Bioshock on the boX, this comes as news whose emotional outcome, like global warming (for purpose of reference), is one that lies in deep-seated hope that nobody messes up. Mobile development rights to the fine as wine Ayn-Rand inspired morality splicer slicer dystopian gargantuan,…

Indiagames’ Games on Demand service has reached 10,000 paid subscribers, and the company has shared some data on the gaming habits on its users:—Total gameplay over the entire year was 27,981,060 minutes - which averages out to around 233 minutes per user per month. —The favorite time to play is…

Games2Win has tied up with Indiagames to make CT Racer Online, a community based online racing game they’d launched recently, available on Indiagames’ Games on Demand Service, as per a release. CT Racer is a Hyundai Digital Entertainment game, published by Sega, which had been launched by Games2Win in November…

A tie up with Level Up, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) distributor in India, gives Indiagames two more MMOGs for their Games on Demand service: Ragnarok and Gunz. Earlier this year, Indiagames had inked deals with Sify for releasing two other MMOGs in their GoD ecosystem: Raikon and Gunbound,…

UTV, through its UK subsidiary, has bought a controlling stake in Indiagames. UTV first bought into a majority in Indiagames late last year, for about Rs 68 crore, which it bought from Chinese online gaming firm Tom Online….that deal has now closed. In addition to that, UTV has also acquired…

Indiagames will be the exclusive distributor in India for content from NASDAQ listed game developer Glu Mobile. This includes games, ringtones, wallpapers related to Age of Empires III Mobile, Brian Lara’s Cricket 2008, Kasparov Chess, Looney Tunes, Zuma, Atari Legends 3, Pong, Asteroids Deluxe, among others. Indiagames has distribution agreements…

“There’s no game deck management guru around today”, said Krishna Durba, Head VAS, Business & Marketing for Reliance Infocomm, responding to my questions on deck management - what kind of experience do their deck managers have in content development or gaming. On further prodding, he suggested that he’s open to…

During the gaming panel, Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames focused on the need for distribution - Cable TV killed pirated videos because, at Rs. 100, you get all the channels. We can keep crying about revenue share, but someone needs to invest in distribution - which is why they invested…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced new content partnerships for its on-device NSeries Video Centre, including one with Indian media company GBN for IBN News. Other partnerships announced include CNN, Jamba, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK (LSE: ROK) and Versaly Entertainment. Nokia already has partnerships with Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) and…

Speculation about the potential size of the gaming industry continues to grow. According to Indiagames’ founder Vishal Gondal, that number could be 100 times the estimated $30 million Indian gaming industry. The Indiantelevision article quotes Gondal as saying, “If we are able to convert the pirate users into paying consumers,…

Online and mobile games company Indiagames, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and other industry players plan to approach the central government to get an industry status for the gaming segment (online and for handhelds) in India. [via Business Standard] Unfortunately, since gaming does not fall under the preview of…

Indiagames will be releasing titles from Oberon Games on its Games on Demand (GoD) service. Games from Oberon include Agatha Christie Death on the Nile, Dream Day Wedding, Magic Match, Scrubbles, Inspector Parker, Saints & Sinners Bingo. Earlier, Indiagames had tied up with PopCap games for casual games on GoD.…

So I guess Zapak’s deal with Popcap games wasn’t an exclusive one. Indiagames now appears to be entering the casual games segment with a tie-up with online casual gaming company PopCap Games. Indiagames will launch games like Bejeweled, Chuzzle, Zuma and Bookwork on their Games on Demand service. Games on…