Zapak.com has dipped its toes into the mobile domain through its Zapak.mobi venture. The GPRS-based site offers games for mobile download and play, with multiplayer aspects and a message box, to bring in a community touch-point. The multiplayer titles are currently turn-based only—apparently due to bandwidth restrictions. There are five…

Zapak is indulging in vapor talk again: Anil Ambani-owned gaming firm Zapak Digital Entertainment says it is in talks with about six gaming companies in U.S. and China for acquisition. “Discussions are on with two Chinese companies, and 3-4 US firms,” Zapak COO Rohit Sharma told TOI...of course this could…

Mainstream Digital Media? A term for us to consider - when asked about Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) position on spends on regional language content, Lloyd Mathias, Marketing Director for India & South West Asia said that the company doesn’t have a position on regional digital media- “We target mainstream digital media”.…

An interesting insight from Kamal Gianchandani, COO of BigFlicks on content acquisition by the Reliance Entertainment. Gianchandani tells Indiantelevision.com in an interview that Reliance Entertainment has a central acquisition team, which acquires films for all platforms, keeping in mind the interests of all departments; however, if the rights are sold…

Reliance Entertainment owned Zapak and Jump games continue their licensing streak. Both gaming divisions of ADAG will develop an online and mobile game respectively, based on cricketer Ishant Sharma. The mobile game, titled ‘Cricket Fever’, will feature different forms of deliveries, with the player trying to bowl the batsmen out.…

We’ve heard often about Zapak Digital Entertainment, the online gaming company from the Reliance ADA Group, planning to launch a China site; the doors to China may have been opened a little after Zapaks deal with Shanda (NSDQ: SNDA) for content (for the MMOG Crazy Kart) got significant media coverage…

Zapakkids.com, which has been around for many weeks now, has now been officially launched using Bhootnath as a tie-up announcement. The site currently offers movie tickets and movie merchandise as prizes for hi-scorers of Bhoot Attack, a flash based game featuring Amitabh’s character shooting down ghosts of kids and balloons.…

Well, the news is finally, finally out: Zapak, Reliance Entertainments online gaming company has acquired the exclusive licence for operating Crazy Kart, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMOG) Game from Shanda, in India. One of the most successful casual games in China, Crazy Kart has apparently been under closed-beta testing in…

Reliance ADA Group company Zapak.com has claimed that they have around 70-75 percent of the Indian online gaming market, with a user base of 4 million. Rohit Sharma, COO of Zapak has told Indiantelevision.com that the company’s Target Group is split equally between the top and the B&C class cities.…

Zapak, Reliance Entertainment’s casual gaming portal, has launched casual games from the Cartoon Network stable. Zapak currently features 17 games, while Cartoon Network’s own site has 32. Interesingly, not many of the games are common between the two sites; I just noticed one - Midflight Snack. Apart from this content,…

[by Cerius Shah] Plans are afoot to “step into the Chinese online casual gaming market with a Chinese website,” Zapak COO Rohit Sharma tells exchange4media.  For their MMOG, in partnership with a Chinese firm, they won’t be looking at a subscription based model as speculated but rather use ‘item based…

[by Cerius Shah] It has been an eventful year for Reliance Entertainment in the digital space. According to this interview, Zapak is currently the top gaming website on Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) in India and will be releasing an MMOG this year (more on that separately). He is bullish on the…

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for sale and the report that Zapak is purchasing Sony Online Entertainment is completely erroneous and false,” a company spokesperson for…

The National Geographic Channel’s has launched a website for its series “My Brilliant Brain”, which has been powered by the Reliance ADA Group’s online gaming company Zapak.com (release). The site has puzzles, with prizes involved. Among the games is Bloxorz, of which I’d completed 22 of the 33 stages one…

“We’ll roll out MMOGs in the first quarter next year.” Reliance Entertainment President Rajesh Sawhney during the Media and Entertainment panel at TiE-ISB Connect in Hyderabad yesterday. MMOGs, he added, have to be subscription based; one can’t depend on advertisers alone - is their interest in gaming sustainable? So Zapak…

Zapak has tied up with New York based Kuma Games for 5 games (over 100 episodes) - DinoHunters, Kuma War, Shootout, Dog fights and Kill Fight. The games require a download client (available here)...I’ll probably give it a go after my broadband connection comes back up. The games are apparently…

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…

Reliance ADA Group company Zapak has launched Zapak Tiny targeting 4 to 7 years olds with casual games. Rohit Sharma, COO of Zapak tells me that advertising to kids is becoming a big segment for the company - around 30 percent for their revenue is from the kids genre with…

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s gaming company Zapak.com is planning to launch gaming portals in Europe and China and also intends to recruit gaming content developers from countries like US and Korea within a budget of $5 million to $10 million, reports the DNA. “We are launching a European site and…