This is pretty big by itself and bigger now in light of the Jamdat acquisition by Electronic Arts... I’m not sure how I managed to overlook it before. Indiagames has signed a contract with EA to distribute its mobile games in India, and presumably all of Jamdat’s mobile games (I don’t think Jamdat has a presence in India, but an EA exec did say he was keen to crack the Indian market in the conference call).
Indiagames is owned in majority by the China’s wireless internet company Tom Online and have some major investors in the form of giants like Macromedia and Cisco Systems. The press release gives a list of planned releases…
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