Games2Win India has launched Gamecurry – billed as the world’s first global search engine for flash online games. “Similar to Google, the website uses proprietary search and crawl engines and about 1.5 lakh games have already been indexed,” according to Games2Win CEO Alok Kejriwal. A note on the About Us page claims:
We’re a ‘Specialised Search [...]
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A recent report from comScore found that 51% of the Asia-Pacific Internet population visited gaming sites in August 2008, spending an average of 87 minutes on the sites, and averaging 11.5 visits per visitor during the month.
China led the Asia-Pacific region in online gaming penetration in August, with nearly 55% of China’s online population visiting [...]
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According to statistics recently released by Korea Game Industry Agency, Korea accounted for just over a third of global online game sales last year. The revenues posted by Korean online game companies totaled $2.41 billion in 2007, or 34.5% of the worldwide online game market. The figure included $781 million worth of online games exported [...]
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Gaming has more to it than fun. In a corporate social responsibility (CSR) endeavour, Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, has joined hands with a Mumbai-based NGO, Population First, and has created a game called ‘Laadli’, – a game, that via a question-answer format, seeks to sensitise the player to female foeticide and sex identification practices.
Gaming is [...]
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Revenue for the online gaming market in the Asia/Pacific region is expected to grow rapidly between 2008 and 2013 from US$5.8 billion in 2007 to reach US$21.1 billion in 2013, a CAGR of 20.6% according to this In-Stat report. MMORPGs remain the mainstream of Asia’s online gaming market.
China is the fastest-growing market for online gaming [...]
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According to a recent report by Ficci and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the Indian gaming industry is projected to grow to from an estimated size of Rs2.7 billion in 2007 to Rs14 billion by 2012, ergo a cumulative growth of 39% over the next five years. [Via]
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In a survey of 1500 RealGames players, nearly 90% said they will watch video ads before and during natural breaks in casual games in exchange for free game play. Additionally, 34% of the respondents said they take further action and click on in-game advertisements to learn more about the advertised product or service.
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7Seas Technologies, a Hyderabad-based gaming company, has reportedly acquired Neodelight, the gaming division of Germany-based Neokolor GBR. With this buyout, 7Seas will get the full IP rights to the Neodelight brand, games, game engine and its website.
Neodelight has developed 33 games, for which it owns the IP rights, which along with its gaming engine seems [...]
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In 2007, the total game play on the service was recorded as 279,81,060 minutes over 1 year with an average time spent of about 233 minutes per user per month and a peak usage of 981 users according to a study by Indiagames.
A recent Comscore survey corroborates the finding. For instance, 10 per cent of [...]
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With an estimated 2.8 million online gamers in India, expect a lot of activity in this area. Also given that Nasscom figures show that the Indian gaming segment — comprising mobile, computer and console games and development — touched Rs 192 crore in 2006, and is likely to cross Rs 1,700 crore by 2010.
In India, [...]
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