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Reliance Big plans to acquires 50% stake in Codemasters

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:16 AM PDT

This is some interesting news for gamers and online game enthus.Reliance Big Entertainment has stepped into giving gaming a boost has purchased a 50% stake in independent British developer Codemasters, remember GRID and Dirt 2 right ? Codemasters would operate under Reliance’s Zapak Digital Entertainment division, described as India’s largest gaming company.

Zapak is the largest gaming company in India, with interests in online casual games, publishing massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), India's largest chain of gaming cafes and physical distribution of gaming software. Zapak also controls Jump Games, an award winning international mobile game development and publishing company with global distribution across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

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Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens quotes

The opportunities arising from this partnership are truly exciting. This is great news for our development and publishing teams.Reliance and Zapak have immense resources and will help us realize the full potential of our game coding and online excellence across so many platforms, and especially in the world’s fastest growing markets. The future of Codemasters has never looked brighter. It’s a whole new game!

Zapak CEO Rohit Sharma says,

We are excited to partner with Codemasters and believe its very strong technology, development and distribution presence will complement our global gaming portfolio.

So in addition to the racing games from EA you might expect GRID to join the league too along with some more Codemaster games.How does that sound ?

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