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If you are a gamer in India, chances are that more often that not, you have come across phillistines who go, “You still play games?!” or the done-to-death quip about videogames existing for the sole enjoyment of the little ones who rush through life at the speed of six thoughts a minute. Arguably, ignorance and apathy (why, hello, Ubisoft!) are the biggest banes as far as Indian gaming is concerned, and the Counter-Strike crazed, Need For Speed laptime whoring pimply tweens aren’t really helping the cause. The world has, till now, pardon me for using a Bush-ism (or for all you Orange Box fans, a Griggs-ism), “misunderestimated” the Indian gaming scene. Whenever our articles get Dugg or make it to the front page on N4G, it doesn’t take long before comments about we not having enough money to buy Xboxes and PlayStations, being a third-world country and a whole bunch of other awesomely turdish comments start popping up, making us run for the mop. It is absolutely saddening to see gaming in India in such a sorry state, especially when you are given a nice talking-to by a squeaky-voiced teen in the Halo 3 matchmaking lobby who’s probably never known the joys of Contra and Grim Fandango.
That’s not to say that no one is trying to do anything to change this. The best example of people seriously promoting the Indian gaming scene has to be the good folks up at GamingIndians, who completed one year quite recently. (What, no cake, fellas?)
Fed up with a nearly non-existent Indian gaming community, these people have gotten together to create the first online community solely devoted to furthering the cause of gaming (yes, this includes the next-generation consoles, for all you people that don’t really a rat’s ass about Grim Fandango!) right here on our home turf. What started as a platform for Xbox 360 fans to voice their thoughts soon expanded to add the piano-black, shiny console from Sony and the cute lil’ all-rounder from Nintendo to the brood. And this little forgotten nook on the Internet has now seen the ranks explode as eager Indian gamers looking for a thriving medium find it to be the perfect place to talk about all the things that catch their fancy. And a little over a year later, GI.com has earned the distinction of being the first place an Indian gamer turns to when they want to be part of a vibrant and active community.
And if you thought blah-blah-ing on the discussion boards are all that these guys do, chew on this. Realizing how insane difficult (nay, impossible) it is for us gamers here to get our dirty, twitchy hands on all the AAA titles at launch, these guys have even partnered with local distributors to bring out special offers where you can get the game as and when they are released at the cheapest rates possible. We’re extremely proud that we’re working with these guys and Tech2 to come up with the very first The Angry Pixel | Gaming Indians | Tech2 Game Of The Year 2007 contest, a first in India where gamers get to vote for their favorite games and take away cool prizes in return. With a huge, heavy red Christmas sack filled with goodies worth INR 70,000, Indian gamers have never had this good. And the best thing is that all of this is being actively organized by the community itself, with the help of our big brothers at Tech2, Microsoft and EA, as well as some of the nicest sponsors we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.
It’s time we stopped lamenting how nothing is being done for the gaming scene in India by the biggies and instead take a leaf out of GamingIndians’ success story. Stand up and take a bow, folks! We love ya. That is, until one of you guys sticks us with a grenade on Snowbound. Then it’s WAR, bitches!
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December 24th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Happy first birthday from me to GI, keep up the good work.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Happy fhurst Buddae to Gi.
… Thx for Caek Enoo
December 24th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Happy birthday GI!! You guys are awesome and it’s good to be partners in crime with you!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:10 am
THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!
Uhm… sorry about that.