Gaming

Six hundred million gamers—that’s India’s player base, larger than the entire population of most countries and rivalling gaming powerhouses like the United States. You’d think investors would be scrambling to throw money at Indian game developers, right? Wrong. Between FY2022 and FY2025, funding for Indian gaming startups plummeted nearly 90%, dropping from over $610 million […]

Most countries deal with one or two dominant languages when designing games. India confronts 22 officially recognized languages and over 1,600 dialects. Most gaming markets feature relatively homogeneous cultural preferences. India spans dozens of distinct regional cultures, each with unique festivals, folklore, and aesthetic traditions. This extraordinary diversity represents both India’s greatest challenge and its

Remember when entertainment meant sitting quietly in front of a television, consuming whatever broadcasters decided to air? Those days are definitively over. Today’s audiences don’t just watch—they choose, create, interact, and shape the content they consume. The transformation from passive viewing to active participation represents perhaps the most significant shift in entertainment history, fundamentally changing

Whilst India’s major gaming studios chase mobile monetisation and licensed franchises, a quieter revolution unfolds in bedrooms, co-working spaces, and tiny studios across the country. Indie game developers—operating outside large corporate structures with minimal budgets and maximal passion—are building games the world hasn’t seen before. Titles like Raji: An Ancient Epic and Mumbai Gullies don’t

The Supreme Court’s November 4th hearing on India’s gaming ban just got more complicated. The Akhil Bhartiya Grahak Panchayat (ABGP), a prominent consumer protection body, formally requested intervention in the case challenging the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025. While gaming companies argue that the blanket ban violates constitutional rights to conduct business,

India’s gaming industry has exploded over the past five years, riding waves of affordable smartphones, faster internet, and millions of enthusiastic players. Yet despite this momentum, developers face persistent roadblocks—ambiguous regulations, unclear intellectual property protections, and a chronic shortage of skilled talent. The Gaming and Developers Association of India has decided it’s time to tackle

Virtual Reality headsets remain luxury items in India, where a quality device costs more than three months’ salary for the average worker. Yet the same technology could revolutionise education in rural schools, train healthcare workers in remote villages, and provide entertainment experiences impossible through traditional screens. This contradiction defines India’s VR challenge: the technology offers

Physical and digital worlds just collided in India’s gaming landscape, and the boundaries won’t return. Walk through any major Indian city today, and you’ll spot gamers chasing AR creatures overlaid on actual streets, whilst teenagers wearing VR headsets experience cricket matches from perspectives impossible in reality. This isn’t distant future speculation—Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Game developers know what you’ll do before you do it. Every click, every purchase, every moment you hesitate before quitting—it’s all tracked, analyzed, and fed into algorithms that reshape your experience in real-time. Data analytics transformed gaming from an art guided by designer intuition into a science powered by machine learning and behavioral tracking. Companies

India’s billion-dollar gaming industry hangs in the balance. On November 4, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act—legislation that wiped out entire business sectors overnight. Companies like A23 Rummy and Dream11 went from processing millions in daily transactions to complete shutdowns within weeks of the law’s