National Geographic Ventures, a unit of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, will be working with game publishers to turn its material into games for PCs, consoles and handheld devices.
The first title – available now for computers and the iPhone – is Herod’s Lost Tomb, a simple hidden-objects game built on a story in the magazine’s [...]
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As the world gaming market gets ready to touch $43 billion by 2010, the Indian console gaming market, one of the biggest untapped markets in the world with less than one per cent penetration, is expected to reach $125 million by 2010.
This would be aided by the rationalisation of prices of gaming consoles recently. The [...]
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It is estimated that by 2010, two-thirds of the human race will be using a mobile phone.
India alone, currently has nearly 260 million mobile subscribers.
Given this scenario, apart from the mobile web, the other sunrise sector is the mobile games business, pegged at $2.2 billion worlwide, with the Indian mobile gaming market forecasted to exceed [...]
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By creating online games around ShahRukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders, Zapak is probably hoping to do a Sony SetMax – the night ShahRukh’s Knight Riders demolished Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in Bangalore, Sony SetMax catapulted to the number one channel in terms of viewership across all genres, including those of the saas bahu variety, during [...]
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Starting September, you will have the option to play God with Will Wright’s latest brainchild Spore, where players start as microscopic life forms competing for survival in primordial ooze and work their way onto land, where they evolve into creatures that build civilizations and rocket into space, mimicking pretty much the way our own civilization [...]
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After movies on mobile phones, its the turn for gaming companies to tap the 54% active Internet users, who access entertainment related applications online.
In the first instance of an Indian movie being made into a full-length PC game, FXLab Studios has tied up with Yash Raj Films to develop D:2.5, an offline computer based game [...]
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