Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Epic Games, Respawn Entertainment, Alpha Dog Games and Riot Games
Open Doors
CrazyLabs acquires Firescore Interactive to boost Indian hypercasual ecosystem
The companies launched a new hub together in July
India Rising
Indian social mobile gaming platform Eloelo raises $2.1 million
The platform has one million users with over 50 per cent female
It’s A Battleground
Battlegrounds Mobile India fires to 34 million users and 16 million DAUs
The title is exclusively available in India via the Google Play store
Anticipation
Update: PUBG: New State has broken 20 million global pre-registrations
Gearing up for 2021 launch
Triple Word Score
MTG acquires Indian word game studio PlaySimple for $360 million
There's also a $150 million earn-out
Boom Times
Indian esports app Loco raises $9 million via seed round
Krafton leads the investment
Flying Solo
How Portal, Little Nightmares and Limbo inspired Nakul Verma
The Playbae founder won The Big Indie Pitch with In My Shadow
Expansion
Nazara buys a majority stake in MENA publisher Publishme
Spends $3 million for a 70% stake
Backlash
Indian politician calls for Battlegrounds Mobile India ban
Union Minister Ninong Ering is not happy
Watching
Twitch mobile app hits 22 million installs in Q1 2021, up 62%
81 million total installs made in 2021
One Game One Country
Krafton announces Battlegrounds Mobile India
New version following original's ban
More Jobs
Kwalee plans to invest $30 million into India over the next five years
Hypercasual co continues to grow
High Octane Action
Apex Legends Mobile soft launch now live - first images and gameplay surface
Testing in India and Philippines
Learning Fast
Nazara Technologies revenue jumps 84% in FY21 to $61 million
Indian tech giant continues growth
Apex Predator
Apex Legends Mobile entering soft launch in India and the Philippines on Android
Won't include cross-play
Get Connected
Kwalee to host 16 April event to connect with Indian developers
Offering one-to-one mentorship
Getting Competitive
Krafton backs Indian esports firm Nodwin Gaming with $22.4 million
"Krafton is excited to partner with Nodwin Gaming to help foster the promising esports ecosystem"
Show Me The Money
Lumikai leads $1.5 million investment in All-Star Games
The Indian studio specialises in Cricket mobile games
Poc In Mobile
LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country
"It was easier to offer someone with less experience that was based locally"
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