Mumbai got lucky this time around as well, considering we are seeing so many events going on here, with Sony and Microsoft both vying for our attention. As we had mentioned earlier, the Mumbai Microsoft / EA Game On event was on at The Squeeze and me and my GamingIndians friends were there to take in all they could throw at us.

Sadly though, the whole event was a relatively low-key affair, with maybe just 20 to 25 people in attendence - more television channels and online / print publications than a gathering of gaming fans. Good thing the place was small, making it look crowded enough! Guess Microsoft India E&D Country Manager saw this coming and chose not to attend, even though other Microsoft execs including Sanjoy John and Xbox India’s Product Manager Vivek Kulkarni hobnobbed with the attendees.

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Looks like the guys in Mumbai are luckier than the bastards at Delhi! Not only are they getting another Game On! event for their very own, but they can also be the first to get their hands on Mass Effect!

Announcing the details for the event at the official Xbox forums, Microsoft India has said that Mass Effect and PGR 4 will be available for purchase at the event, scheduled to be held on the 22nd at Squeeze, Khar, Mumbai. What’s worse (for those that live outside Mumbai, that is) is that all those that pick up Mass Effect will also get a Halo 3 Limited Edition poster autographed by Joseph Tung, producer at Bungie. Apparently, there’s only 500 of these in print so it’s a really sweet deal for those that would be buying Mass Effect anyway, like yours truly. Pity I live in Bangalore, the forgotten realm of Indian gaming!

Let’s see if we can have our Mumbai friends pick this one up for us and hopefully, part with said Limited Edition poster so that I can have it up right next to my gigantic Homer Simpson one!

via [360indians]

We have been pretty much content living in Bangalore, that is, until now. With our correspondents living up north getting lucky two times in a row, it has become more and more difficult. First, it was the Halo 3 pre-launch party followed up with the XBL India launch announcement party, both in New Delhi. Come 16th November 2007 and these buggers will strike gold again when they get to attend yet another event being organized by Microsoft India.

Touted as the, “Biggest Gamers Night Ever Seen”, the event will be showcasing Mass Effect, PGR 4, Army of Two and The Orange Box besides Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties and Gears of War for the PC. The event is an invite only with limited invitations being sent out to the early birds. But if you hurry, there still might be a few seats open!

Needless to say, we’re invited and are eagerly looking forward to all that will be on show besides the excellent food that our reporters, Vijay and Reggie, have become so accustomed to gorging on. Though NDAs are expected to be in place, rest assured that we will be bringing to you all the details that we are allowed to talk about. Expect to see in-detail coverage of the event with pictures and videos of our stuffed reporters putting their best foot forward as videogame “journalists”.

In the meantime, we will resort to poking needles into voodoo dolls of their likeliness, as we try to get a little love sent to us poor folks in other cities as well.