Reliance Games
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| Subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group | |
| Industry | Video games |
Key people | Amit Khanduja CEO |
Reliance Games is an international developer and publisher of mobile games [1] known for several video games like Pacific Rim, Real Steel, Real Steel WRB, Total Recall and Drone Shadow Strike with about 50 million overall downloads. Headquartered in Mumbai, It's a part of Reliance Entertainment a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group in the media and entertainment business.
Currently, Reliance Games has a global presence with game creating studios across the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea and India with a focus on boxing, runner and racing genres for Android, iOS, Amazon and Windows platforms. Around 70 game titles have been created for Android and roughly 200 java-supported games.[2] Headed by CEO Amit Khanduja,[3] Reliance Games has announced plans to incubate and invest in gaming sector start-ups which involves sharing intellectual property with mentoring on engineering, product management and designing, and character illustration.[4] As a part of its third-party publishing activity, the company helps game developers worldwide in publishing games on various platforms under a revenue-sharing model. North America, UK, Russia and Korea cater to 70% of the Revenue with 20% coming from India.[5]
In recent news, Reliance games is about to launch a zombie vs zombie fighting game, Zombie Deathmatch, which is supposed to launch this October, 2015.[6] The Company has future plans to acquire mobile game studios in Europe and North America in early 2015.
History
The first game in the series, Real Steel was launched as an extension of the DreamWorks 2011 action movie Real Steel.[7] The Game received a ranking of No. 1 on iPad in five countries, top 5 among iPhone games in 27 countries and was in the top 10 games on Apple App Store in over 100 countries.
In March 2013, Reliance Games acquired 100% stake in Funel, a Japanese mobile games development and publishing firm and a 51% in Bhusan-based Bluesom Inc.[8]
On October 17, 2013, Real Steel World Robot Boxing (a.k.a. Real Steel WRB) the sequel of Real Steel was launched and within a few days the game had five million downloads and has been its most successful game title.[9]
In July 2013, Pacific Rim was introduced which tasked players to protect the world’s cities from aliens which have risen from the seas to destroy humanity. The game is an extension of the film Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro and was created in association with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures.[10]
On March 5, 2015, Reliance Games in association with Dreamworks Studios announced the launch of Real Steel Champions which lets players build their own robots and fight with them to win the Championship.[11]
References
- ↑ Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, "Reliance Entertainment enters game publishing", Business Standard, October 4, 2014
- ↑ K Rajani Kanth , "We'll do 7-8 high-end games a year for global markets: Manish Agarwal", Business Standard, December 14, 2013
- ↑ "Reliance Games Appoints Amit Khanduja as CEO". NDTV Gadgets360.com. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ Krithika Krishnamurthy, "Anil Ambani-led Reliance Games to incubate and invest in gaming startups", The Economic Times, October 16, 2014
- ↑ Nayak, Malathi. "Exclusive: Reliance Entertainment plans to acquire Western game studios in 2015". Reuters. Retrieved Nov 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Zombie Deathmatch is the first mobile fighting game to feature zombies fighting zombies [Sponsored]". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
- ↑ Sounak Mitra, "Reliance Games to create action-based mobile game studio", Business Standard, October 27, 2013
- ↑ Priyanka Pani, "Reliance Games buys two gaming firms in Japan, South Korea", The Hindu BusinessLine, March 12, 2013
- ↑ Sounak Mitra, "Reliance to create mobile game studio", Business Standard, November 30, 2013
- ↑ Editor, "Reliance Games, Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Announce Pacific Rim Mobile Game", FanboyNation, June 6, 2013
- ↑ "Gamasutra - Press Releases - RELIANCE GAMES AND DREAMWORKS STUDIOS RELEASE REAL STEEL CHAMPIONS FOR iOS". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2015-10-13.