A few days ago, Indiagames COO Sameer Bangara was interviewed by AnimationXpress on the company’s current business situation and future mobile gaming plans. When asked about the ensuing development for PC and console gaming, Bangara revealed that the company is working together with UTV-owned, UK-based game publisher Ignition Entertainment on a several number of projects. One in particular that only seems to be possible on the Playstation 3.

Is Indiagames looking at developing high-end games for platforms apart from mobile?
Yes. But, we don‘t compete with our publishing partners. Hence, we only work in sections which are not catered by them because that will conflict with our GOD model. However, our 3D team has excellent potential and we are working on some high-end content. If you take Paanchvi Pass, for example, it‘s a cracker of a game. Then there is 20-20, a cricket game, which is also doing very well. As far as console titles go, we are working on a title called Ashoka. Besides, through our group company Ignition we are working on three other titles, of which one game can only run on a PS3.

Now, there aren’t that many publicly-know PS3 exclusives from Ignition buzzing around the net these days. Actually, there’s just one! So we’re gonna bite the proverbial bullet here and assume that Bangara is talking about the closely-kept guarded secret that is WarDevil. Being developed by Digi-Guys, a subsidiary of Ignition, WarDevil is an action-adventure game being built to accommodate the latest in graphics tech and will hopefully push the PS3 hardware to its limits. So where Indiagames fits into all of this is anyone’s guess, and we highly doubt Bangara will just give us the info on a silver platter. One thing’s for sure: any notable signs of Bhangra music in this post-apocolyptic robo-fiesta, and you will now come to understand how it happened.

 

Now, this is one place where we never expected to see Jack with his wrench. After stomping their way through the Xbox 360 and the PC, the Big Daddie’s are all set to arrive on your cell phones in all it’s pixellated glory. IG Fun LLC, the international publishing arm of Indiagames Ltd made an interesting annoucement today at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Spain. According to the annoucement, IG Fun has secured the rights from 2K to bring the multi-award winning world of BioShock on to your cellphones.

Sean Malatesta, the CEO of IG Fun had the following to say on the subject,

 We’re trying to do great things and BioShock on mobile promises to offer a whole new gaming experience and unmatched excitement amongst mobile gamers the world over. BioShock is a special game in its genre; it brings an element of conflicting morals which has an impact on the storyline, and, among other things, on the difficulty of the game itself.

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Sorry for the delay folks - but finally my internet connection is back up and I can show you guys the video interview TAP did with Cyril Ferry - Head of Marketing; Indiagames.

We asked Cyril a bunch of questions ranging from the absence of CS : Source in the WCG to the current state of gaming in India. We also spoke about the lack of console based multi-player games and also about a certain game magazine that (no-surprise) wasn’t invited to cover the event!

So sit back and watch. Our apologies for the poor audio though. As you’ll see, we got an all access pass to everything backstage, and that’s where we ended up - backstage - so there was a lot of noise to be had. Therefore, video best watched with a pair of headphones on. To preserve quality, we haven’t uploaded it on Youtube or similar, but provide it as a direct download from this space exclusively.

And if you like the intro tune, remember to download Frets on Fire.

Download the video here.

When Krishnan informed us that the World Cyber Games preliminaries were about to take place in Delhi last Saturday, Reggie and me felt it was necessary to get our asses over there and start some brouhaha with the participants - in a strictly sociable manner, of course. With its seventh official year already under way, the WCG, much like a young apprentice trained in the mystical arts of audio-visual maiming, has certainly come a long way in promoting competitive gaming here in India. Despite having some confusion with the time schedule (all we knew was that on-site registration would start from morning till noon), getting to the National Science Centre where the tournament would take place at didn’t prove to be much of hassle for us. After all, nothing burns expensive petrol gas like the AP-Mobile, baby. Roll out!

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