Games24x7, India’s largest online skill gaming platform, commenced their partnership with Akshaya Patra Foundation with an aim to provide 10,000 student beneficiaries of the Mid-Day Meal Schemes (MDMS) with ‘Happiness Kits’. These kits contain tools to deliver holistic nutrition, education, and hygiene to the doorsteps of children in alignment with the changing requirements of a pandemic afflicted world.

To continue transforming the gaming content creation, Rooter – the game streaming and Esports platform has joined hands with cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal. The gaming industry’s first-ever collaboration will bring Yuzvendra Chahal as a content creator on Rooter’s platform. Chahal is one of the biggest gamers among the current Indian Cricketers and follows his passion for gaming whenever he gets an opportunity. Chahal is also famous for making viral videos with his wife ad YouTube Sensation Dhanashree. The streaming community on Rooter and the viewers can now chat with Yuzvendra whenever he goes live to play BGMI and Freefire. 

Baazi Games has further diversified their portfolio with the addition of Baazi Mobile Gaming (BMG) – an end-to-end social interactive gaming application. Launched with the objective of building a community of users with the right combination of cognitive, problem solving, and risk-taking skills called “Baazigars”, the application will focus on games that will range from testing hand-eye coordination skills, memory, and problem-solving skills of the individual. 

Zynga recently announced that StarLark, a subsidiary of Zynga and the developer of Golf Rival, a mobile golf game in the world, is kicking off the holiday season for mobile golfers with a series of themed in-game events. These events will allow players to tee up in an arctic winter wonderland.

Leading Indian esports team GodLike Esports has announced its all-female roster, GodLike Girls BGMI Roster, featuring top female gamers from all over India. The female roster will be managed by Cornerstone Sport and will handle all brand and commercials engagements. There has been a significant surge in the number of female users in the gaming market, across the globe and in India, as several studies have also showcased. 

World Esports Cup (WEC’21), South East Asia’s tri-nation esports championship is seeing diverse participation from the gaming community from India, Pakistan and Nepal as it recorded close to 1.2 million registrations during the registration phase which ended last month. 

Twitch co-founder Justin Kan has declared that he will be creating a new marketplace for gaming NFTs called Fractal. The company already has partnerships with gaming studios that will be dropping new NFTs on the platform in the coming weeks. Players will be able to buy gaming NFTs directly from Fractal gaming partners as well as discover, buy and sell gaming NFTs from other players.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) declared that it has struck an agreement to acquire Seattle-based videogame developer, Valkyrie Entertainment. Popularly known for providing content and co-development services for several highly acclaimed studios, Valkyrie Entertainment will join PlayStation Studios as the 17th studio and will aid in the development of key PlayStation Studios franchises.

NPD Group which tracks video game sales in the U.S recently said that the combined sales of Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite and Nintendo Switch – OLED Model systems hit 1.13 million in the month of November, powering up Nintendo Switch as the best-selling video game console of that month.

OneTo11 – one of the world’s first blockchain gaming ecosystem was recently won the award of the 'Top Crypto Project' at DeFiLive London. The event showcased the hottest DeFi Projects and the biggest tech breakthroughs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency domain. Hosted in London, the event featured leading players and pioneers of the blockchain and DeFi industry. 

IndiaTech has written to the Ministry of Electronics and IT suggesting the framing of a ‘Code for Responsible Online Gaming’. Previously, the industry body representing India’s...

Added yet another feather to its cap, Ultimate Battle (UB), India’s first-ever one-stop online esports platform, is taking online gaming by storm as they become the only Platform-as-a-Service provider in India.  

 NODWIN Gaming, the material subsidiary of Nazara Technologies Limited (BSE: 543280) (NSE: NAZARA), and South Asia’s leading esports company, has acquired a strategic 10% stake in the digital content IP media network Rusk Media. 

The former head of engineering at Amazon Lockers, Rajat Bansal, has joined as the chief technology officer at Games24x7, one of India’s largest online...

In India, the National Finals of the 4th edition of Red Bull M.E.O. (Mobile Esports Open), the largest mobile esports competition in the world, took place from 3rd to 5th December.  After 6 intensely fought matches in the finals on Day 3, Enigma Gaming emerged Champions of the Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) tournament. Skylightz Gaming finished Runners-Up having lost on the championship by a narrow margin of 1 point. Jonathan Gaming of GodLike was awarded as the Most Valuable Player of the BGMI tournament. Parad1ddle and Hackershrey9 triumphed in Teamfight Tactics (TFT) and World Cricket Championship (WCC) respectively. 

The All India Federation of Lottery Trade & Allied Industries (AIFLTAI), an umbrella organization of lottery distributors, stockists, agents, etc., has written to the GST Group of Ministers constituted to look into the GST issues in the gaming sector. The federation requested a uniform GST rate and method of valuation of services across all states of the country just like Income Tax and several other products in GST as well for lottery and gaming.