Will Console Gaming outbeat PC Gaming in the Future

Here we are finally, at the most awaited question of the year that could turn the face of the gaming industry, ‘Will Console Gaming take over PC future?’ This question has risen due to the introduction or more precisely the invention of high quality, high performance powered, sleek gaming consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox (just released Xbox360), the Sony Playstation2 (Playstation3 yet to be launched) and many more. These are not only gaming consoles but are boxes with everything included in them i.e. from high speed processors to high-end video cards to even high capacity hard disks.... (more...)

WCG India 2005 Game Over

After a gruelling schedule of screaming, nail chewing, sweating and a lot of gaming, World Cyber Games India came to a close with the finals held in Mumbai at the Kamala Mill Compound, Lower Parel. In the four years since WCG started, one ticket has always been pre booked. Rahul ‘Stormblast’ Rohira, formally of [too many clans to name] fame is at this very moment, checking hardware websites to see what he can bring back from Singapore. With ACID, composing Rahul, Jenil, Lalit, Deepak and Ranjeet, winning in Counterstrike again, Stormblast is obviously jubiliant. Ricky from Kawabonka,... (more...)

Top 5 Graphic Cards in the Market

With so many high end games coming for the PC, the need for a graphics card which can support all these latest games is becoming a craze for all PC gamers. The main thing that any gamer will want is that any game which he is playing should run smoothly on his PC without any glitches. This can be achieved by spending some amount of money and buying a graphics card that can run almost any latest high end game without any glitches. The latest in graphics cards uses the PCI Express interface which is far better than the age old AGP interface due to faster speed and performance. The industry adoption... (more...)

The Nintendo Saga

The term “videogames” and Nintendo are synonymous to each other. They somehow cannot be used in isolation because if it wasn’t for the bunch of geniuses hard at work at Nintendo, we would still be stuck up playing a bad lot of Atari games, which eventually led to the Great Videogame Crash in the 80’s.The company from its early beginnings has managed to carve quite a niche in the industry today. The Stone Age- Nintendo was established way back in 1889 as a small company engaged in making trading cards called “Hanafuda”, gradually it entered into a string of ventures including a “love... (more...)

The Evolution of Indiagames: An Interview with CEO Vishal Gondal

He is not only a hard working executive for the largest games development company in India, but an avid gamer as well. Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames, has found tremendous success over the past two years in the mobile games space. His company, Indiagames, has forged ahead of the competition with numerous titles in development of pc and mobile games worldwide. They have built strategic partnerships with numerous manufacturers and carriers. So, who is Vishal Gondal? How did Indiagames evolve? How was it different from other developers? In this exclusive interview we get the inside scoop from the... (more...)

The Cult of Diablo

A long way back in 1997, came a game called “Diablo” which was more or less popular. It did a modest business and gave the parent company Blizzard enough response to keep the series running. Next came the expansion “Hellfire” in the same year, which added to the spice, and once again, gave Blizzard enough response to carry on. Then after three years came the legendary game Diablo 2, with a strong storyline, great graphic effects and a new defining RGB game-play which was to mesmerize the minds of gamers for many years to come. Diablo 2 was completely independent of its predecessors and... (more...)

Take your Pick Is it the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3 for you?

Gaming has come a long way since Pong. Each Generation of consoles along with their games has brought something new which has captivated audiences’ world wide. The Nintendo entertainment system brought gaming to the living room from the arcades. Each generation of video games had some game unique to them; nostalgic moments include gunning down foes in Contra or winning a fight in Street Fighter when you have been pounded by your opponent throughout the round or cutting off your Opponents head in Counter Strike when he is blissfully sneaking around. Some moments have to be re-lived. We are about... (more...)

Interview with Delhi CS Clan “Stooges”

As WCG approaches, CS clans all over India are practicing day and night to win the tournament and gain a chance of representing India at the main event in Singapore. Although Delhi does not boast of a gaming community as big as Mumbai, there are a number of CS clans here that have proven their status. I met up with four members of the reigning clan of Delhi christened “Stooges” and found about them, their life and what makes then tick. IceFusion: First of all, tell us about yourself and how long have you been playing CS? [D1v1ne]: Hi, this is Abhishek, I have been into CS for almost a year... (more...)

SCIT Counter Strike Tournament

In the incessant rains of August, the Symbiosis Center for Information Technology (SCIT), at Hinjawadi, Pune, celebrated their Annual Day on the 1st and 2nd of the month…and they did it in a big way indeed. SCIT celebrated their Foundation Day on these two days during which an annual Techno-Management Festival called ‘Techie Kaun?’ was conducted at the college campus. Techie Kaun’ has been conceptualized by the PGDM students of the institutes, seeks to find the best in the varied fortes of business and technologies. The 2-day event challenges the genius within you and gauges your... (more...)

Rendezvous with the Vice President of Animation Today

Animation is quite a nascent concept and industry in the Indian sub-continent. India stepped into this field much later than its foreign and Asian counterparts. However, it is slowly emerging as a country that is well-versed in the forte of animation. We had a tête - à - tête with Mr. K.M. Ranjith Chandrasekharan, Vice President of Animation Today, the leading animation magazine in India, who tells us more about this upcoming sector. GI: Could you elaborate a little about Animation Today? RC:We started Animation Today around one year ago. It is India’s first animation magazine that centers... (more...)

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