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  1. Scrabulous Taken Down Worldwide By Facebook (Except In India)

    Techcrunch (Aug 26 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    In July, after Hasbro and Electronic Arts launched the official version of Scrabble on Facebook, they asked Facebook to take down Scrabulous, the competing app that started it all (and borrowed heavily from the trademarked game). Facebook complied, but left Scrabulous up in other parts of the world, where the international rights belong to [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mattel

  2. New Startup Ramo Games Launches Kids Gaming Portal

    WATBlog.com (Aug 22 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Ramo stands for “play” in Gujrati and a new startup by the name of Ramogames.com has been launched. This gaming site is targetted at kids and is founded by Sumir Meghani a Harvard Business School graduate and Yahoo! alum along with others having experience with companies like Electronic Arts, Thomson Learning. Ramo Games is already angel [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Yahoo   Harvard University   Electronic Arts

  3. WATShow Presents an Interview With Quentin States-Polet- CEO of Kreeda Games on Dance Mela

    WATBlog.com (Aug 20 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    WATShow got Quentin State-Polet, the CEO of Kreeda Games to talk through the idea of their latest launch , MMO game - Dance Mela. We discussed the following questions with Quentin:

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Kreeda   Dance Mela   Kreeda Games

  4. UTV Acquires 80% Stake in Californian Gaming Company

    WATBlog.com (Aug 19 2008) Gaming , Acquisition Explore Article

    UTV Interactive, the gaming division of UTV software has acquired a 80% stake in True Games Interactive, a gaming company based in California. True Games Interactive is known to focus on the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) model, which is fast becoming popular these days.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Ignition Entertainment   Ronnie Screwvala   UTV Interactive

  5. UTV Software Acquires US-Based Online Gaming Startup True Games

    contentSutra.com (Aug 18 2008) Gaming , Acquisition Explore Article

    UTV Software Communications, the media and entertainment company, has picked up an 80 per cent stake in California-based gaming company True Games Interactive. The acquisition has been done through its UK-based subsidiary IG Intercative Entertainment, said the company informing the BSE today. True Games is a multi-player online game publisher involved in developing, licensing, aggregating, publishing and distributing of online games. True Games is working with publishers to license existing ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   UTV Software   Indiagames Ltd.

  6. UTV Software Acquires US-Based Online Gaming Startup True Games

    VC Circle (Aug 18 2008) Gaming , Acquisition Explore Article

    UTV Software Communications Ltd., the media and entertainment company, has picked up an 80 per cent stake in California-based gaming company True Games Interactive. The acquisition has been done through its UK-based subsidiary IG Intercative Entertainment, said the company informing the BSE today. True Games is an multi-player online game publisher involved in developing, licencing, [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Indiagames Ltd.

  7. Zapak’s Online Model Failing? New Focus on Selling Discs ?

    WATBlog.com (Aug 18 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Is Zapak.com, the online gaming portal owned by the mighty Reliance ADAG group, failing in its plan? Online gaming, that is? This report by Business Standard hints something towards this. Reportedly, Zapak’s now offering the gaming CDs to beat the lukewarm response for its online games. Rohit Sharma, chief operating officer, Zapak Digital Entertainment said “The online [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zapak   Business Standard   Rohit Sharma

  8. MyWebERA.com showcasing User Generated Creations to Share (Painters, Gamers, Animators)

    IndianWeb2.com (Aug 17 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    MyWebERA has launched a three headed website for Painters, Animators and Gamers through three of its products and all being different in themes and category, these are - www.paintersera.com, www.animatorsera.com, www.gamersera.com. MyWebERA is a product from Chennai based startup with three of its online entities is providing a platform for not just to create their [...]

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  9. RamoGames.com launches India GeoQuest

    Avashya (Aug 15 2008) Gaming , Mobile Explore Article

     RamoGames.com today announced the launch of India GeoQuest, a game to celebrate India's independence day.  In the timed game, you must select the given state of India on a color-coded map.  You have three tries to guess the states correctly. India GeoQuest is one of hundreds of kids educational

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  10. Zapak Launches Zapakworld.com, Turns Aggregator

    WATBlog.com (Aug 12 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Reliance-ADAG group’s Zapak has launched what appears to be an aggregator of Flash games online. The website, Zapakworld.com does not contains games from Zapak.com. With reportedly more than 12000 games, Zapakwaorld.com claims to be the biggest online flash game aggregator in the world. I visited the website and it had the same colorful look that [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zapak

  11. Zapak Launches Flash Game Aggregator ZapakWorld

    contentSutra.com (Aug 11 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Zapak, Reliance ADAG's online casual gaming arm, has launched Zapakworld, a casual game aggregator consisting of 12236 games, reports Medianama. User's have the ability to upload their own games. Note that Zapak in its earliest avatar was an aggregator itself, albeit not one that scrapped for player embed codes on other sites. While it currently white-label's licensed products, Zapakworld on the other hand is a mother-load of everything with a ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zapak   Reliance ADAG

  12. ‘Scrabulous’ Returns As ‘Wordscraper’

    WATBlog.com (Jul 31 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    Yesterday, we wrote about Scrabulous being pulled down from Facebook. The popular game on the social networking site was an online adaptation of the classic offline game. Seems that Hasbro, the company that owns the right to Scrabble in U.S. and Canada, had some problems with Scrabulous. They wanted their own version to be more popular, which, actually was doing pretty bad. Just to avoid some of the legal problems, ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Electronic Arts   Hasbro

  13. Scrabulous Gets Wiped off Facebook

    WATBlog.com (Jul 30 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

      One of the most popular games on Facebook, Scrabulous, that has been responsible for countless wasted internet hours, has been wiped off the site. The game is no longer accessible for Facebook’s members from US and Canada.     The game had been developed by two brothers from Kolkata, in 2006, for the site Scrabulous.com. It was an [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hasbro

  14. EA to take up Subscription Model for Online Gaming? Here’s a Piece of Advise from WATBlog

    WATBlog.com (Jul 30 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    It seems the success of World of Warcraft is getting onto the nerves of some of the other pronounced game publishing companies. Now, it's Electronic Arts (EA) planning to come up with a subscription based online gaming model. I also remember EA planning to come up with the subscription based model for its mobile version too. The question here is, how would they structure the revenue model?

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Electronic Arts

  15. Endgame: Scrabulous Gets Wiped Off Facebook

    Techcrunch (Jul 29 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Long outplayed by two Indian brothers, Hasbro finally delivers a massive counter blow to Scrabulous, one of the most loved games on Facebook. Scrabulous fans in North America will see the following message when they try to play the game: Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Rajat Agarwalla   Hasbro   Jayant Agarwalla

  16. Social Gaming: Is it the Future of Gaming?

    WATBlog.com (Jul 24 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    Social gaming is a new genre of gaming which adds the 'Social' factor to the games. True, multiplayer games have been played since a long time, but there is hardly any 'social' factor to it. Imagine sitting with your family on a Sunday afternoon, and everyone decides to game. No, not the warfare kind. The one where everyone gets to take part, collaborate with one another or simply play against ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Myspace   Business Standard   Aurona Technologies

  17. Zapak Launches Zapak.mobi; Advertising Supported Turn Based Strategy Games

    contentSutra.com (Jul 23 2008) Gaming , Mobile Explore Article

    Zapak.com has dipped its toes into the mobile domain through its Zapak.mobi venture. The GPRS-based site offers games for mobile download and play, with multiplayer aspects and a message box, to bring in a community touch-point. The multiplayer titles are currently turn-based only—apparently due to bandwidth restrictions. There are five titles offered: Chess, Reversi, TicTacToe, Battle Blocks, and Connect 4. The service itself requires MIDP 2.0 (essentially Java support) on ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zapak

  18. Hovr brings Free Ad-Supported Games to NDTV Active

    WATBlog.com (Jul 23 2008) Gaming , Mobile Explore Article

    It was just today that we brought you the news about Zapak launching a mobile gaming site at http://zapak.mobi. Now, we have just been told that NDTV Active, the mobile portal from NDTV now brings your mobile Java based games, courtesy of Hovr.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zapak

  19. Zapak Enters Mobile Gaming, Launches Zapak.mobi for Java Based Games

    WATBlog.com (Jul 22 2008) Gaming , Mobile Explore Article

    Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there. The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the market these days and the games have been designed [...]

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Reliance Industries Limited   Zapak

  20. MySpace launches Pan-Asian game applications competition ‘TheGame08’ in Shanghai

    exchange4media.com (Jul 21 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    Social networking site MySpace has announced the launch of ‘TheGame08’, a Pan-Asian game applications competition. TheGame08, which began on July 17, would culminate on September 14, and is open to developers who are legal residents of China, India, Japan and Korea, and are at least 18 years of age.

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  21. Zapak Vs Games2win Strategy - A Case Of Media/Brand Power Vs Content/Technology Expertise?

    WATBlog.com (Jul 15 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Well for those who are like me who have been tracking the online gaming space since the last 2 years Zapak and Games2win would come to mind instantaneously when someone talks about casual gaming. So this post is an attempt to analyze how these two match each other from a strategy perspective.. Read on..

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Games2Win   Alok Kejriwal   Reliance ADAG

  22. Read all '"gaming"' posts in Webware

    Technology news (Jul 14 2008) Gaming , Maps/Local , Social Networking , Funding Explore Article

    Java-based massive multiplayer online game RuneScape on Monday is increasing its detail level for all users. It's the second major graphical overhaul the service has undergone since launching in 2001 and is noticeably better than previous iterations ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Marc Andreessen   Jeff Bezos   Google

  23. Read all '"games"' posts in Webware

    Technology news (Jul 13 2008) Gaming , Maps/Local , Social Networking , Funding Explore Article

    Java-based massive multiplayer online game RuneScape on Monday is increasing its detail level for all users. It's the second major graphical overhaul the service has undergone since launching in 2001 and is noticeably better than previous iterations ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Ron Conway   Google   Marc Andreessen

  24. Games2win unveils world’s fastest growing online games ad network

    exchange4media.com (Jul 11 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    G2W Inc, the fully owned subsidiary of Games2win, has unveiled Invizi Ads, claimed to be one of the world’s fastest growing online games ad network. The Invizi Ads concept is quite simple: game developers insert an ad code in their games before releasing it to the outside world. Then depending on their deals with other gaming partner portals, they can turn these ads to be either visible or invisible on ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Games2Win

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