Former chief technology officer of Nazara Technologies, Vamsi Talasila, has joined health-tech company RESET TECH (K&L Wellness Technology Pvt. Ltd) as co-founder and CTO. Vamsi’s role will be to build the technology platform of the business and expand its operations globally.
Santiago Martin, also known as ‘Lottery King’ Martin, the owner of Future Gaming and Hotel Services (P) Ltd) is a business tycoon hailing from Coimbatore who built his business empire by printing and distributing lottery tickets. Future Gaming now handles government paper lottery schemes for the northeast governments with a near-monopoly. With lotteries legal only in a handful of states, apart from Kerala, where the state government does not permit private distributors, West Bengal is the biggest market for the paper lottery business and for Martin
Skyesports Streamer Showdown is back for its second season, and this time the battlegrounds tournament will be in one of India’s most popular games, Free Fire. This will be Skyesports’ first event for the battle royale title. Twelve influencers have been invited to the Skyesports Streamer Showdown. They will compete across five days from December 6 to 10 for a share of the Rs 300,000 prize pool. Six matches will take place each day on Bermuda, Purgatory, and Kalahari.
BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender, that was held digitally last year due to the lockdown restrictions, is now back with live editions planned for February 2022 in three cities – Pune, Kolkata and Delhi NCR. NODWIN Gaming, who recently acquired the festival from OML Entertainment, will be organizing the festival. Registrations for the virtual edition as well as bookings for the live festivals, will open from December 4, 2021.
Gaming and esports company, Penta Esports, has announced that ‘Battlegrounds Mobile India’ (BGMI) will be the esports title of ‘Penta Amateur League’ December 2021 edition with a prize pool of ₹5,00,000. Registrations have started and squads can enter the tournament on Penta Esports’ platform pentaesports.com.
Dream11 is reportedly weighing in options to enter the online rummy space, sources said citing anonymity. The gaming leader had recently closed an $840...
Established in November 2016, BOOM Esports is a multinational, multidivisional esports organization with top-tier rosters from Southeast Asian regions.
Eximius Ventures, a Delhi-based micro VC with a key focus on gaming, talked to founders, CEOs, and lead executives at established and upcoming gaming companies to identify market insights, trends, and future possibilities.
Microgravity Ventures has announced the fifth edition of Microgravity Gaming League (MGL) – Free FireBattle Royale. The company will be hosting this esports tournament in partnership with Platinum esports between 11 December and 22 December. The format of the tournament will be qualifier and invitation based, spread out in five phases – qualifiers, phase one, phase two, semi-finals and grand finals. Microgravity has announced a total prize pool of Rs one lakh for the top three teams and exciting gaming vouchers redeemable at their world-class gaming facility in Gurugram for top five viewers of the live broadcast. Teams can register from 1 December till 10 December and participate in this competitive all-India tournament.
The Mumbai-based content creator and Youtube sensation Aaditya Sawant, better known as Dynamo Gaming is among the few Indian gamers to achieve the milestone mark of 10 million subscribersx on his YouTube channel-Dynamo Gaming.
Games24x7 announced that it will work towards the cause of child welfare in India. Towards this year’s end, Games24x7 will make financial contributions and partner with some of the pre-eminent organisations working in this domain including Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), Hemkunt Foundation, Akshaya Patra Foundation and United Way of Bengaluru.
Registrations for the first week of races has opened on the 29 November and close on 5 December, while registrations for the second week will begin on 6 December and close on 12 December. All players will get to register for their region for the leaderboard-based tournament. Twelve finalists from across the three regions will race it out on one track during the grand finale on 18 December for the big prizes.
The Rupandehi District Court has charged gaming operator Tiger One and Silver Heritage Investment with a fine of Rs3,000 for contempt of court. District Judge Lila Raj Adhikari recently ruled against the operator of the Tiger Palace Resort, a five-star integrated casino resort in Bhairahawa, on Monday.
Velocity Gaming, one of India’s fastest-growing esports organizations, announced that it is entering BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA (BGMI) by picking up the talented roster of Team IND.
