India

What The Blue Whale Game Teaches Us About Indian Media And Society 0
- Editorials, Gaming, India
- August 30, 2017
The term “Blue Whale Game” first emerged a month or so ago in Indian social media circles en mass. Before becoming mainstream panic, it was mostly relegated to message boards like 4chan and secretive communities in different social media sites like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. The thing about this whole “game” is that it’s not
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Why the Bollywood movie Phobia is a feminist masterpiece 0
- India, Silver Screen
- June 3, 2016
I went in for Phobia expecting something better than the sad excuses for psychological horror that Bollywood generally churns out, was almost disappointed, until I absolutely wasn’t. Spoilers ahead. While a twist ending is to be expected in any thriller, the twist ending in Phobia came in like a storm transforming what seemed like any old
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When will the videogame industry find its Shakespeare? – Special 1
- Editorials, Gaming, India
- April 24, 2016
This is a special article by Souvik Mukherjee, who researches videogames and storytelling and has a PhD on the subject. When he’s not saving the Capital Wasteland, he teaches English at Presidency University, Kolkata. Sixteen years ago, when I was a rather diffident English Literature back bencher in Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India, a friend of
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What Happened at EDGE X, Kolkata?0
- Gaming, India
- April 14, 2016
This article was a collaborative effort between multiple ASidCast members who attended the EDGE X event. I.e. Sayak and Trilokesh. As gaming industry is picking up pace in India, many colleges and other educational institutions have embraced PC gaming and its related technology, which was quite evident from the gaming events in the Annual Technological
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GIGABYTE and Nvidia Blogger’s Meet 2016 Kolkata – Gaming Industry and Its Future in the Eastern India 0
- Gaming, India
- March 31, 2016
India is a country with the majority of it’s population young, and so having a large number of potential gamers, around 23 million, as estimated by leading Global GPU manufacturing company, Nvidia. But the current rate is much lower, counting at about 10 to 12 million gamers at present, who play games more than 2
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Why Bird of Light Ditched Mobile for the PC Platform 2
- Gaming, India
- March 23, 2016
First of all, a little announcement from Roach Interactive. Bird of Light, our upcoming game, will be released for PC on Steam soon, through a US-based PC game publisher. Now that’s done and over with, some of you will have noticed us promoting the game for mobile for the last few months; it turns out
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