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Online games company ChangYou.com today launched the Gamiction web portal through which it will release online free-to-play games tailored to the Indian audience. Designed to appeal to Indian mid to hardcore gamers”, Gamiction will feature free browser-based games that require no downloads, with minimal bandwidth usage. The first game to …
Read More »BitRhymes’ Bingo Bash receives D.I.C.E. Award nomination
Bingo Bash has made its way into the nominations of the 16th annual D.I.C.E Awards. Developed by Bangalore and California-based BashGaming (formerly BitRhymes), Bingo Bash is nominated alongside Burrito Bison Revenge, CityVille 2, Sim City Social, and Song Pop in the ‘Web Based Game of the Year’ category. Bingo Bash …
Read More »Two games based on upcoming film Race 2 announced
Gameshastra is set to release two games to tie into the upcoming Bollywood blockbuster, Race 2. The games will be based on the two major themes of the upcoming action multi-starrer – cars and casinos. The first, a racing game, is set for release today for Android devices. We’re unclear …
Read More »Gameshastra releases mobile puzzle game Crazy Oogles
Gameshastra has fashioned itself into something of a puzzle game specialist. After releasing seven puzzlers in 2012, the most recent of them being Rescube, the Hyderabad-based company has now launched Crazy Oogles. The grid-based puzzle game tasks the player with connecting similar coloured tentacles, with complications arising in the form …
Read More »Global Game Jam comes to Bangalore, Gurgaon this month
Global Game Jam is the largest game jam in the world, set to take place over a period of 48 hours in 160 cities simultaneously. In India, the NASSCOM Gaming Forum is helping bring the Global Game Jam to Bangalore and Gurgaon. The Game Jam will take place from 25th …
Read More »‘Game design for everyone’ tool hits Kickstarter
Garage Games looking for $500,000 to fund 3 Step Studio suite of tools and templates
Read More »Double Fine: We’re unafraid of open development after Kickstarter
Double Fine’s memorable Kickstarter campaign has taught studio founder Tim Schafer that there’s nothing to fear in being open with the development of a game. Schafer told VentureBeat that despite popular belief, opening up and letting players in on the development process provides a support net for the in-progress title. …
Read More »Nearly 1,000 games developed in Ludum Dare 25
Global game jam ends today
Read More »Bohemia postpones Arma 3
Arma 3 has been officially postponed until 2013 by developer Bohemia Interactive. The decision comes as two of its staff remain in jail following their arrest over allegations that they were scouting a military base on the Greek island of Lemnos in the name of research for the game. All …
Read More »Next Mass Effect game coming in 2015
The follow-up to Mass Effect 3 will arrive between late-2014 and mid-2015, a developer at Bioware has revealed. Speaking with Gamer Syndrome, Mass Effect 3 producer Mike Gamble said that the game will be revealed sometime in 2013. Last month, executive producer Casey Hudson had confirmed that Bioware had begun …
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