India’s largest mobile game developer and publisher Nazara games today announced its investment in Mastermind Sports, a London based mobile gaming studio. Mastermind Sports is also ready to launch its first game ‘CricBet,’ a real time prediction game offering second screen experience. Nazara has invested 26% stake in Mastermind Sports after a recent investment in London based gaming studio Truly Social. Mastermind Sports is founded by London sports gaming entrepreneur Tom McCall and Bangalore tech entrepreneur Pratik Shah. “Our focus is the ‘second screen’ experience. We aim to use our sports & technology insights to create mobile games that engage fans during live matches, enhancing experience with their friends & family without geographical constraints.” Tom McCall, Founder...
India’s premier game developer and publisher, Nazara games has entered into an exclusive agreement to develop mobile games across the world with ACK Media, home of India’s most beloved comic book series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. With more than 400 titles in 20+ languages that have sold more than 100+ million copies to date, Amar Chitra Katha is a cultural phenomenon. Meanwhile Tinkle continues to be the most widely read English magazine for children across India, and has been an integral part of growing up in India over the last three decades. Characters like Suppandi, Shambu & Tantri the Mantri, that appeared first in the pages of the magazine, have a nationwide recognition. Nazara will be developing, publishing and marketing games, based on Tinkle and Amar Chitra Katha characters...
India’s premier mobile game publishing company Nazara Games has today announced the appointment of Anuj Tandon as the new Head of Mobile Game Publishing & Corporate Branding. Tandon was the ex-Co-Founder and COO of the award winning Indian gaming company Rolocule Games. Anuj, is an industry gaming expert going forward will manage the B2B relations for Nazara games along with key marketing and product aspects. Anuj has worked as business analyst in India and UK for Infosys before he co-founded Rolocule Games. He is a hardcore mobile gamer and a technology enthusiast who quickly grew Rolocule Games into one of the most well known game development studios in India that counts CIIE, Mumbai Angels and Blume Ventures as its investors. Commenting on the new appointment the CEO of Nazar...
India’s premier mobile game publishing company Nazara Games has signed a multi-year deal to exclusively publish “Cut The Rope” franchise in Indian subcontinent. “Cut the Rope” is one of the most popular mobile gaming brand worldwide and has over 750 million downloads worldwide since its launch and has over 50 Million monthly active users playing the game every month. We had an interesting conversation with Manish, the CEO at Nazara, and Deniz from Zeptolabs, where they reveal more information about the partnership, and what they have in store for the Indian audience. Gaming Central: Could you tell us a bit about the partnership between Nazara and Zeptolabs? Denis Morozov: Well, so basically, our games have become extremely popular around the world. Cut The Rope has been there since 2009, a...
India’s premier mobile game publishing company Nazara Games today has signed a multiyear deal to exclusively publish “Cut The Rope” franchise in Indian subcontinent. “Cut the Rope” is one of the most popular mobile gaming brand worldwide and has over 750 million downloads worldwide since its launch and has over 50 Million monthly active users playing the game every month. Nazara in partnership with ZeptoLab’s would massify “Cut the Rope” brand in India by bringing lot of local culture nuances inside the game besides localizing the game to solve the unique infrastructure related challenges faced in Indian ecosystem. Nazara expects that localization and culturalization will help in getting more than 50 million download for “Cut The Rope” franchise in Indian subcontinent over next 3-5 y...