Play it by cell

ET quotes a latest SSKI report that expects the wireless VAS market to grow from estimated Rs 350 crore to Rs 3,800 crore in ’10. The revenue share of games is 5-6% at present but is expected to go up to 8% by ’10. Paid downloads figures for mobile games are around 6,00,000 a month. [...]

Mauj launches games in Indian language

As part of its “Indianization” initiative, Mauj Telecom has launched mobile games in Hindi and 7 regional languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu. The 3 games developed by Mauj – “Mastibhari Udaan,” “Saahas Ka Yudh,” and “Jaanbaaz” are aimed at making mobile game play easier for mobile users in B and [...]

Movie games are new moneyspinner

Article in Mumbai tabloid Mid-Day on mobile games based on Hindi films. Over the past two years more than 50 films have been converted into mobile games. Filmmakers have begun to realise that mobile games not only provide an additional publicity medium but can also be used to bring in extra revenue. On average, a [...]

Pyramid Research finds Indians are avid gamers

A recent Pyramid Research survey of mobile phone users across the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries and the U.K. has ranked India as the top mobile game market. Of the 355 respondents in India that identified themselves as mobile data users, 32 percent said that they play mobile games monthly, exceeding the UK [...]

Mobile Gaming Market

This article on Indian gaming market estimates the mobile gaming market size to be around US$3 million in 2004. On an average 2,00,000 games were downloaded via the GSM/GPRS operators – Airtel, Hutch, Idea, and BPL.

July Systems Launches Interactive Game Service

July Systems has launched a interactive mobile game service which allows consumers to download a special interactivity-enabled mobile game, play, and post their scores to a community leaderboard directly from their mobile phones. The service called Play2Win is for Mobile Streams on their UK games portal MobileGaming.com and is offered with a weekly subscription. Emma [...]

Mobile game Turbonator wins Abby

A mobile game called Turbonator has won the Gold award in the newly constituted “Digital Innovation” category at the Abby 2005 awards. Based on Mahindra’s SUV Scorpio model, the game was conceptualised by its agency Interface Communications, and developed by Tinfo Mobile. As mentioned earlier on MobilePundit, Mahindra is probably the first company in its [...]

July Systems powers try-before-buy mobile games service

Bangalore based July Systems is the technology provider of the white-labeled, end-to-end managed cross-operator service which allows German consumers to try mobile games before buying on the portal Firstfun.tv. The new service on Firstfun.TV is completely managed end-to-end by July Systems and is built entirely on July’s German mobile retailing infrastructure. July manages content sourcing [...]

Cisco and Macromedia invests in Indiagames

Business 2.0 reports that ones of India’s largest mobile content / games developer Indiagames has roped in Cisco and Macromedia as investors. This comes after China’s TOM Online acquired a 80% stake in the company in December last year. Cisco’s share should amount to roughly 10 percent for $2.2 million, while Macromedia’s will come out [...]

Java Game Developers Challenge

Sun Microsystems India and Paradox Studios, a Reliance Infocomm subsidiary, have announced a wireless game developers contest beginning April 4, 2005 and lasting for two months. According to a press release, participants will have to develop a J2ME based game application, competing in the process for a host of special prizes sponsored by Paradox Studios, [...]

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