UTV, today, is one of the largest gaming entities in South Asia and has established presence in markets globally across all platforms be it console games, mobile or online gaming through its subsidiaries Ignition, Indiagames and True Games respectively. With development and publishing facilities in London, Florida, California, Tokyo & Mumbai, the business is geared up to launch some of the biggest games of 2010. With this backdrop, UTV is well placed in the Global Gaming space.
UTV, India's only diversified media and entertainment Company with content creation abilities across platforms and genres, ventured into the video games' business through acquisition of UK based Ignition Entertainment Limited in March 2007. Having a wide customer base across UK, Europe, Japan and North America, Ignition develops, publishes and distributes console games across multiple platforms like Sony's Playstation, Microsoft's X Box and the Nintendo range of consoles.
Visit Website: http://www.ignitionent.com
Indiagames Limited is India's largest gaming company and a pioneer in mobile and online games in India. UTV acquired a majority stake in Indiagames in December 2007. Indiagames boasts of an extensive network of telecom operators across the globe such as Vodafone, Verizon, T Mobile, AT&T, Airtel and many more. It has tie-ups with all major game publishers and media companies in the World such as EA, Disney, THQ, Atari, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers, Sony, MTV, 2K to name a few. Indiagames has developed and published mobile games such as Bioshock, Garfield, Flavor Of love, Godzilla, Bruce Lee, The Office, Scorpion King, Cricket 20-20, Movin Maze to name a few. Indiagames is a very active developer of games based on Indian movie IPs. Few such games launched by Indiagames are Ghajini, Dev.D, Goal, Jodhaa Akbar, some other titles based on the T20 cricket games and Zoozoo games. Indiagames recently attained the feat of crossing 10 million cricket games downloads, internationally.
Gradually expanding its user base, Indiagames has now ventured into PC games which are distributed online through broadband ISPs like BSNL, Airtel and Tata VSNL amongst others. Being the largest developer and publisher of wireless games in India, Indiagames is the only company to run a subscription based Games on Demand service for PC games across all major broadband operators in India. Promoting gaming across the globe, Indiagames is the official partner of WCG (World Cyber Games) in India.
Visit Website: http://www.indiagames.com
True Games Interactive Limited based in California is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) games company with free-to-play micro transaction based model. UTV acquired controlling stake in True Games in September 2008.
True Games is working towards the launch of Warrior Epic, an online action role-playing game set in an original fantasy universe followed by their second game called Mytheon, a persistent online game based in mythical Ancient Greece.
Through these entities, UTV now has 360o capabilities to develop, publish and distribute games across PC, Console and Mobile, for the World markets and is geared up to launch some of the biggest games of 2010.
Visit Website: http://www.truegames.com
