Gaming broadly covers four main areas:
Platform Games, based, for example on Sony Playstations(P2,P3 and PSP),Nintendos(DX, Wiis), Microsoft X-Box, PCs and Macs. These games cover many genres, including Action, Adventure, Driving, Role-playing, Simulation, and Strategy.
Cross-platform Games, which allow users linked to each other over wifi-networks or online to play against each other.
Browser Games, based for example on Flash downloads.
Massively multiplayer online games made possible by the growth of broadband, allowing hundreds of thousands of players to play the same game together. Many different styles of massively multiplayer games are available, such as MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORTS (Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy)and MMOFPS (Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter).
Tanla Solutions, based in Hyderabad, India is establishing a 50:50 joint venture with ZED Worldwide Holdings SL, a Spanish digital content and services company after it received approval from India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The JV is set up as a limited liability company, to focus on the development and delivery of mobile Value-Added Services in India.
Michelle Wong, 07 April 2009
The Walt Disney Company's Asian subsidiary The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. has increased its strategic investment in UTV, India's only integrated media and entertainment company with content creation abilities across platforms and genres. With this investment, Disney will be...
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Sarita Jones, 11 June 2008
Virtual world and online community site Gaia Online has raised $11 million in Series C funding from Institutional Venture Partners. Gaia raised $12 million in 2007 from DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures and its total funding to date is now $32 million. Tellingly, none of the...
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Reiko Uchida, 25 July 2008
Bestofmedia Group, the French tech publisher that acquired tech sites Toms Hardware and related sites last year, has raised EUR 22.5 million ($35 million) from Index Ventures. The company claims to be the third biggest online tech publication in terms of traffic, ranking behind CNET and IDG.
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Sarita Jones, 15 July 2008
RockYou, the creator of applications such as SuperWall and Likeness which exploit the boom in social networking, has raised $35 million new funding from a consortium of VCs consisting of DCM,Partech, Lightspeed and Sequoia. RockYou based in San Mateo, California, raised $12m last year in it's...
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Reiko Uchida, 09 June 2008