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
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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09 June 2008
SCi Entertainment Group has raised £60m ($119 million) in additional funding from real estate tycoon Robert Tchenguiz and Warner Bros., which already owned 10 percent of the company. Following this investment, Tchenguiz, through his Thorson investment vehicle, will control 22 percent of the...
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28 April 2008
GamerDNA, one of the many social network for gamers has just raised $3m in Series A funding from Flybridge Capital Partners. The company was previously known as GuildCafe.com, a community site for fans of Guild Wars and other PC-centric MMORPGs. GamerDNA will use the funding to expand that...
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21 April 2008