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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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