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Indiagames nets 'Spider-Man' deal for mobiles

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BANGALORE: Indiagames has won world rights to sell a mobile phone game based on Spider-Man.

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Vishal Gondal, a 27-year-old heading more than 100 software programmers and designers at privately-held Indiagames Ltd, believes the deal with Marvel Enterprises Inc and video game publisher Activision Inc is the door to a fortune.

The game developed by Indiagames features Spider-Man rescuing New Yorkers kidnapped by his enemy, the Green Goblin. Players can make their hero scale skyscrapers and spin webs around enemies.

Under a licence from the U.S. firms, Indiagames will also sell ringtones and screensavers based on the Spider-Man character to telecom giants including Nokia Corp and Hutchison.

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South Asia’s largest ICT publishing company, Cyber Media (India) Ltd (CYBERMEDIA), has consolidated its multimedia business by moving into the new frontier --games software-- by investing in the country’s largest developer in this field, Indiagames Ltd.

Indiagames delivers interactive entertainment content on the Internet, broadband, wireless and kiosk-based platforms. The company has produced some of India’s most advanced games, including India’s first 3-D game, Yoddha.

"This deal puts us into a new growth orbit," Gondal, who has been a gaming fanatic since his childhood, told Reuters.

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The game will be released in eight languages including English, German, Chinese and Italian and made available in a few weeks through Indiagames' distribution network of about 50 telecom operators, Gondal said.

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Indiagames has so far developed more than 40 games for some of the biggest Hollywood studios and phonemakers such as Nokia.

Gondal started his firm with about $1 million venture funding 1999. His rivals now include French video games maker Gameloft and Japanese commercial game machine maker Taito Corp.

"Just a few years ago, our biggest challenge was to convince potential clients that a company based out of India could develop a wide array of games," he said.

"Now, we have the whole world open to us."

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