| Companies light up sales with Diwali games | 15-OCT-09 |
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| Indian gaming companies are all set to light up this Diwali season with plenty of online games. Some games (called edu-games) are even creating eco-awareness by showing how the festival of lights can be enjoyed without using “dangerous” fireworks, even as they further popularise the “mythological” story of Diwali. The games are accompanied with a kaleidoscope of colours and sounds. |
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| History repeats itself for gaming firms | 06-AUG-09 |
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| Next time you want your children to learn about the exploits of Tipu Sultan, The Big Bang Theory or the Apollo 11, introduce them to online games. |
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| Chat, challenge and play | 25-JUN-09 |
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| Playing an online game is fun. But how about going a step further to chatting and interacting and challenging one another while at play? Welcome to the new virtual world of social networking-based gaming — massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and its big brother massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). |
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| Corporate geek: What tickles CEOs | 22-JUN-09 |
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| It’s no secret that every top executive and CEO practically sleeps with his mobile phone under the pillows and laptop on the stand-by mode. But for many executives, the geek story has moved well beyond BlackBerries and Push emails. |
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| Gaming firms eye big bucks from polls | 26-MAR-09 |
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| Election 2009 is revitalising the Indian gaming companies’ interest in developing games based on political and election themes for online and mobile platforms. “It’s raining subscribers for us, especially youth, and is a time to rake in more moolah,” they say, with most of them putting the development of other genre of games on the back burner for the time being. |
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| Gaming firms eye big bucks from elections | 25-MAR-09 |
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| Election 2009 is revitalising the Indian gaming companies’ interest in developing games based on political and election themes for online and mobile platforms. “It’s raining subscribers for us, especially youth, and is a time to rake in more moolah,” they say, with most of them putting the development of other genre of games on the back burner for the time being. |
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| Games couples play | 05-MAR-09 |
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| Hiding the shoes, fishing the ring, unknotting the knotted string — the quintessence of a wedding tradition, which (generally) happens once in a lifetime. But now, couples get a chance to re-live their romance and riffs, virtually anytime, courtesy Indian gaming companies that have found a new genre in such marriage traditions — matrimony games. |
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| Developers hear iPhone ring | 11-JUL-08 |
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Indian software development firms have started developing iPhone applications for the Apple iPhone, which is yet to be introduced in India. |
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| Gaming firms target women | 26-JUN-08 |
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| Advertisement-driven businesses mean targeting decision-makers. Most firms believe it is now women and thus women-centric games will flood the market. |
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| Are you game? | 29-MAR-07 |
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| The Indian gaming industry is likely to generate revenue worth $100 mn in the current fiscal.
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| Surreal reads | 24-FEB-07 |
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| A busy schedule doesn't deter Alok Kejriwal, CEO, contests2win, from laying his hands on books by his favourite authors.
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| Focus2Win | 31-AUG-06 |
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| INTERNET: Alok Kejriwal explains why he's just sold Mobile2Win's China unit to Disney.
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