ZAPAK DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD. (ZDEL)

Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. (ZDEL) is India`s largest gaming company & part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. With over 75% share of the market, we are leading the revolution in the gaming industry. Globally gaming is emerging as one of the leading businesses. By the end of 2010 gaming is poised to become a Rs. 21,200 crore* industry, making it bigger than Hollywood and Music Industry. India’s current gaming market is valued at Rs. 270 crores**; it is estimated to touch Rs. 1400 crores** by 2012. Powered by these statistics, Reliance plans to invest more than Rs. 400 crores in the next three years. Zapak Gameplex offers the best games and a world-class gaming alongwith F&B (snacks), internet surfing, cool merchandise and peripherals.Zapak Gameplex is India`s first high-end gaming café, supported by world-class infrastructure and high speed broadband. Over 20,000 gaming enthusiasts walk in to Zapak Gameplexes every week – making us the fastest growing gaming destin

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Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. is India’s largest gaming company that addresses the complete value chain of Digital Gaming. With currently 8 million registered gamers, Zapak.com is not only the largest casual gaming sites in the country but amongst the top casual gaming sites in the world. As per a recent survey on an average a user spends about 21 minutes on Zapak.com, which is way higher than the average time one spends on any gaming website

Zapak has its own Subscription Gaming service called Zapakplus where Gamer can play a large number of games at affordable prices. It’s a subscription service for an avid hardcore gamer.

In addition to the above Zapak has a wap site called m.zapak.com which is world’s first Multiplayer platform for feature phones. It offers over 1200 free games and boasts of over 2 million unique visitors every single month. M.zapak.com is synonymous to the mobile social community centre because of its huge entertainment, gaming and other offerings.

Zapak works closely with most of the leading global gaming and entertainment players such as Microsoft, Valve, Popcap, Boonty, Playfirst, Disney, Universal Studios, Shanda, Cartoon Network, THQ, iPlay, Hands-On etc.

KEY SBUs of ZAPAK

Online Casual Games

Zapak.com is not only India’s largest online casual gaming site but also amongst the top 5 gaming sites in the world in terms of traffic and registered users. With more than 8.5 million unique registered users it is bigger in India than yahoo games or miniclip.com. Zapak.com is the only portal in the world that offers games across all genres be it single-player, multi-player, downloadable games, kids games, girl games and cricket games. We have strong partnerships with leading global players such as POPCAP, Playfish, Boonty, Oberon, Come2Play etc.

Subscription Gaming Service

Zapak.com has launched Zapak Plus, its subscription gaming service in the country. Zapak Plus offers a bouquet of full version PC games for a monthly / quarterly subscription for unlimited playtime per game during the defined period.

Zapak Plus has a bouquet of more than 120 games from international publishers - Codemasters, Focus Home Interactive, MumboJumbo, Absolutist, iWin etc. to offer best content available. Users will have unlimited access to popular titles like Dirt, Ashes 2009, Flat Out, Luxor, Sherlock Holmes, Jewel Quest, Mysterious City – Cairo and many more.

MMOG Publishing

Zapak is also the biggest publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) in India. It has launched some of the world’s most popular MMOG titles such as “Crazy Kart” and “Crazy Kart2” (in partnership with Shanda, China’s largest Gaming company worth $ 3 Billion) and “Runescape” (worlds second largest MMO with over 8 million subscribers, in partnership with Jagex Games Studio). Zapak is also in advanced talks with all leading studios including EA, Sony Online Entertainment, Disney, Activision-Blizzard to launch their titles in the Indian market.

Mobile Games

Zapak has a division, Jump Games, which is the leading Global publisher and developer of Online and Mobile Entertainment with global distribution across North America, South America, EMEA and APAC on 80 networks across 40 countries. Presently content is available on the leading operators like Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Reliance Mobile World, Telstra, Tele2, TIM, O2,, KPN, Telia, 3, Telefonica, Optimus and Telenor, etc. Jump Games also has Premier partnerships with Apple, Blackberry, Samsung and Nokia for appstores.

Premium partners include Cartoon Network, International Cricket Council, Universal Studios, Virgin Comics, Playboy, etc.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

    Over 8.5 million online registered users

    1 out of every 3 people on the Internet in India are on Zapak

    Over 5 million unique users per month across its network

    Zapak features among the top 5 sites in India on user's engagement as per Comscore data

    Zapak features among top 10 WAP destinations in India with over 2.5mn unique users per month

    Global distribution of Mobile Games and applications

    Strong focus and competence on appstore of Apple, Blackberry and Nokia

    Strong content partnerships in the mobile space with Cartoon Network, Playboy, Virgin Comics and Universal Studios

    Strong technology team for porting games and applications across multiple Mobile devices

    Strong Content partnerships in the PC Gaming space with EA, Microsoft, Sony Online, Activision, PopCap, Cartoon Network, Disney, Valve, Shanda etc.