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Square Enix chairman Yoichi Wada delivered the opening keynote at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference this past weekend, where he spoke about the Japanese company’s operations in India. We caught up with Wada-san on the sidelines of the conference to talk a little more about his views on the India …
Read More »Here’s what you can expect from IGN India
The Indian edition of popular games website IGN is just weeks away from launch. We caught up with Ziff Davis business development director Adam Doree and IGN India editor Avinash Bali to find out a little more about IGN’s plans for India and what content Indian gamers can look forward …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Tanmay Chinchkar
Tanmay Chinchkar is barely out of college and his first game, which he created as part of a three-day development sprint, has already earned him a BAFTA Award nomination. Project Heera has come along quite a bit since it won Chinchkar first place at last year’s BYOG competition at the …
Read More »Big Fish: How PC will help us conquer free-to-play on mobile
CEO Paul Thelen shares casual games giant Big Fish Games' vision to become the world’s biggest free-to-play firm
Read More »Renaissance man: Mark Cerny and the origin of PS4
Coder. Producer. And now console designer. Develop meets the man behind PS4
Read More »SPOTLIGHT: Vasu Chaturvedi
Vasu Chaturvedi is one of India’s most promising up and coming indie game developers. In 2011, he was part of a team of students from DSK Supinfogame that won the BYOG game jam at NASSCOM GDC. He is one of the creative minds behind Circulets, Hashstash Studios’ frantic upcoming tabletop …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Rich Vreeland
Music is key to a game’s immersion factor, and that is a point Rich Vreeland drove home in his keynote address at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. Vreeland is a freelance music composer, who’s been creating music for games for the last six years. Vreeland’s resume features titles like Bomberman …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Glen Schofield, Sledgehammer Games
On day one of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, we caught up with Glen Schofield, vice president of Sledgehammer Games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), who spoke to us about the state of the gaming industry, the free-to-play revenue model, mobile gaming, and more. MCV: What made you move …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Rajesh Rao, Dhruva Interactive
The Indian gaming industry was pretty much non-existant in 1997 when Dhruva Interactive came into existence. One of India’s oldest game companies, Dhruva is the brainchild of Rajesh Rao, who is today also the chairperson of the NASSCOM Gaming Forum, India’s largest game developers’ community. Dhruva has established itself as …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Vitek Goyel, PixelTek and Phoenix Online
Vitek Goyel has been a busy man. He helms successful 3D game art outsourcing company PixelTek; he’s the vice president of a truly global game development studio in Phoenix Online; and he’s also the frontman for folk/punk rock band Slow Down Clown. Phoenix Online’s first commercial release – Cognition, is …
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