Now Play Zapak games on Facebook

Zapak.com, India’s largest online gaming portal, today announced the launch of their games on Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site. As a part of this, Zapak Games will feature as an application on Facebook.

At present, Zapak’s Facebook application features more than 30 different games. To enjoy the games, a user has to add the application to his/her profile. The application allows users to select games and challenge their friends including those who haven’t installed the Zapak application. Zapak has focused primarily on casual gaming which includes sports, arcade, strategy and action games like Ice Hockey, Street Soccer, Speedway Racing, School Cricket and many more.

Users can flaunt their gaming skills through their ‘trophy cabinet’ – a feature provided by the application. Through this each user has a trophy cabinet which he can fill up and show-off to his friends. Users win trophies in each game that they play. Medals are also given on every challenge.

The main goal of Zapak is to make gaming easier to deliver the finest experience to their millions of users everywhere.

Commenting on launch of Zapak application in Facebook, Deepak Abbot, VP-Product, Zapak.com said “Zapak has always believed in reaching out to all gaming enthusiasts and provide them with the best gaming content available. Many of our users visit Facebook frequently and this application will offer them their favourite games even when they are not on Zapak.com. With this they can challenge all their friends for all games and publish their wins to show it off on their profile.”

Users can log in to Facebook account, and add the Zapak application: http://apps.facebook.com/zapakgames/

About Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd.:

Zapak is India’s largest gaming company that addresses the complete value chain for Online Gaming. With currently over 7 million registered gamers, Zapak.com is not only the largest casual gaming sites in the country but amongst the top gaming sites in the world. Zapak Gameplexes are the first of its kind, large-format dedicated gaming cafes with high- speed broadband and High-end PCs. There are 102 gameplexes present in 36 cities all across India to provide the Indian games world-class shared access. There will be about 300 Gameplexes all across the country in a year’s time. Zapak Games, the Licensing & merchandising arm of Zapak has created one of India’s largest retail distribution network with presence in over 5000 retail outlets across 135 cities all across India. Zapak also plans to bring to India some of the world’s best MMOG titles by internationally renowned developers. There are plans to introduce at least 5-6 MMOG’s with 2 titles to be launched this year. The first title in the series being ‘Crazy Kart’ in association with Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. was launched in September ’08 and ‘Runescape’ in association with Jagex Studios was launched in October ‘09. Zapak Live is the BTL arm of Zapak that does a large number of tournaments, championships, events and conferences around the gaming space. Jump Games, India's premier mobile gaming and publishing firm, is also a part of Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd.

Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited has started a gaming revolution in India. This gaming destination is now a buzzword amongst gamers (Newest Buzz Awards, ’08), reaching them across all possible touch points. At the Asia Brand Congress ’07 and then again in ‘08, under the category of Brand leadership in India, Zapak won the award for the Internet Business.