For Freedom
Bollywood star Akshay Kumar teams with nCore for new mobile game
"Join a special unit of FAU-G commandos on patrol in dangerous border territory"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: India overtakes US to become second-biggest game download market globally
Only China sees higher downloads worldwide
It's War
PUBG Corp is bringing PUBG Mobile back to India
Changes have been made to create PUBG Mobile India
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: G-STAR unveils 2020 speaker line-up, Honor of Kings hits 100m DAU, and PUBG pulled in India
Our roundup of top stories from the region
Outta Here
Tencent pulls PUBG Mobile from India after government ban
"We deeply regret this outcome, and sincerely thank you for your support and love for PUBG Mobile in India"
Delayed Change
Google delays Play Store changes in India to 2022
"We are setting up listening sessions with leading Indian startups to understand their concerns more deeply"
Still Banned
India's government not likely to bring back PUBG Mobile
"The violent nature of the game has been the cause of many complaints from all quarters"
Battle On
PUBG Corp cuts Indian publishing partnership with Tencent
"PUBG Corporation fully understands and respects the measures taken by the government as the privacy and security of player data is a top priority for the company"
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: India bans PUBG Mobile & 117 other apps - what will happen next?
News and insights from the Master the Meta team
Funding
Indian games platform Winzo secures $18 million in Series B funding
"Winzo is at the heart of India's gaming evolution"
Banned
PUBG Mobile gets hit with a ban in India
One of 118 Chinese apps to be booted from the country
To Battle!
Report: India to ban PUBG Mobile as part of crackdown on Chinese apps
Region generates around $3 million in revenue for the game
Hyped Up
CrazyLabs invests $500,000 in the Indian hypercasual games market
"If you look at the charts now, India is underserved when it comes to local developers"
Removed
India's government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok
The apps were "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorised manner"
New Studio
Kwalee to open its first international studio in India
Located in Bangalore
What A Save
Lion Studios' puzzler Save The Girl tops global downloads for April 2020
Mobile game accumulated more than 50 million installs
Claim A Freebie
Amazon Prime members in India to get free in-game content for mobile titles
Variety of titles included
"leap Of Faith"
Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India
Mahesh Athirala details how he started the award-winning studio.
Entering India
The next frontier in gaming: Entering India
Orange Rock CEO Kasturi Rangan and PTW senior manager of marketing and PR Kaley Hurst explore the opportunities that esports are bringing to India
"great Potential"
Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin
Flutin boasts nine million downloads with over 300,000 daily active users
Age Of 5g
Square Enix looking to "relaunch" and expand Indian business presence
Cloud streaming and 5G also touched upon
$$$
PUBG Mobile shoots through $1.5 billion in lifetime revenue
China brought in 40 per cent of total earnings
Igdc 2019
How the Indian mobile games market is progressing in 2019
It is primarily a mobile market
Igdc 2019
Super Krishna Crush: Block Blast Game picks up Studio Game of the Year at IGDC 2019
There were five awards overall
Hot Stuff
Indian powerhouse Nazara looking to invest $20 million in gaming and esport startups
Has already invested $50 million in past two years
Emerging Markets Hit
Garena’s battle royale game Free Fire surpasses $1 billion of lifetime revenue
Ranked up the achievement in two years
For All
SuperGaming raises $1.3 million for new social gaming platform
Building for a casual audience
Cooking It Up
Tilting Point prepping for the launch of SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off
Co-dev deal with Nukebox Studios
Speaker Line Up
The India Game Developer Conference 2019 reveals speakers
It is being held between November 22nd and 23rd
Loose Change
Coin Master cashes in over $500 million in global revenue at $6.20 per download
Moon Active’s title has surpassed 81 million downloads
Esports Team
Pole to Win launches its own PUBG Mobile esports team
Orange Rock Esports to compete at the Vodafone 5G PUBG Mobile finals in Milan
Sensor Tower
Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July
Voodoo’s Aquapark.io slides to second spot
Sensor Tower
India tops worldwide mobile downloads for Q2 2019 with 5.4 billion
13 per cent increase from Q1 2019
Moving Location
Zynga India moves to new studio in Bangalore
Developer currently hiring for multiple roles
Investment Round
Indian ed-tech firm Byju's raises $150m
Funding is said to value the company at around $5.5 billion
Stock Sold
India's Reliance Entertainment reduces ownership to 14.2 per cent of Codemasters
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019
Crash
Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched in India and Australia
Tencent-owned Chinese studio Timi handling development
East Meets West
East Meets West: Sony and Microsoft team up on cloud gaming, Rockstar buys Dhruva, and Indonesia is world's fastest-growing market
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Games To Fund
Games2Win launches Replay games funding initiative for Indian developers
Mentoring, developing, advice and marketing
Acquisition News
Rockstar acquires Indian developer Dhruva Interactive for $7.9m
Starbreeze sells majority stake in studio for $600k less than it paid
East Meets West
East Meets West: Chinese regulator starts approving new games, China debates long working hours, and Perfect World is world's top grosser
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Real-money Competition
Indian esports platform Mobile Premier League raises $35.5 million
Series A to fuel product and user growth
East Meets West
Kabam partners with NetEase for Marvel Contest of Champions China launch, and Black Desert picks up $1 billion
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Crime Does Pay
Games2win partners with Sony Pictures to launch mobile games based off iconic Indian show CID
“It’s an all-time epic”
Ban Lifted
India police lift PUBG Mobile ban in Ahmedabad
With exam season over, officials see no reason to renew the Battlegrounds ban
East Meets West
East Meets West: Pocket Gamer Connects heads to Hong Kong, and Tencent's games make $19bn
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Firing Line
PUBG Mobile banned in several Indian cities
Ban will be in place until March 30th, 2019.
Learn
Indian learning platform Byju’s buys out US games firm Osmo for $120 million
Osmo will help the online education firm craft learning content for younger students
India
United Nations: India primed to become the next great game development hub
Gaming joins VFX and animation as a growing industrial powerhouse in the country
Growth
Square Enix eyes India as part of year of “aggressive” overseas expansion
India and China will play a key role in the Square Enix president’s plans for global growth