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‘The Hindu’ covers the launch of ‘Bowling Wizards’ – new bowling game by Nextwave Multimedia

Monday, December 26th, 2011

The prestigious Indian news paper ‘The Hindu’ covered the launch of Nextwave’s new game ‘The Bowling Wizards’

To read more click here

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article2748057.ece

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Nextwave Multimedia - new ‘Legend’ at Intel!

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Nextwave Multimedia, declared new ‘Legends’ by Intel for the app Comics Creator.

To know more about this honour click here

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Nextwave Multimedia features in ‘The Times of India’

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Recently Nextwave Mutimedia featured in ‘The Times of India’. The article “ Angry Bird Like success From India Inevitable” discusses the success of Nextwave Multimedia, Chennai & Twist Mobile, from Indore.

The article based on an interview with Nextwave’s CEO P.R Rajendran discusses the Company’s exploration in the field of App development and the future of global Apps from India.

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Nextwave Multimedia launches new games for Nokia’s Touch & Type devices

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Recently, Nextwave Multimedia launched series of new games for Nokia’s Touch and Type devices. These exciting new phones, Nokia X3 -02, C3 -01, C2 -02, C2 -03, C2 - 06 are now touch enabled while the regular keypad remains. The phones are also, surprisingly economical, making them very popular.

These interesting new games are now available at the Nokia Ovi Store:

Cricket Sudoku, Hoops, Baseball, Mobi Tennis, Space Odyssey, Mobile Athletics,
Chef Vs Chicken, Master Blaster, Super Ludo, Honey Bites, Aliens Undefined, Mission Possible, Hit 21 Deluxe, Pallankuzhi

Watch a sampling of the game plays in the following video links:

Find The World - http://store.ovi.com/content/187352

Speed Racer - http://store.ovi.com/content/122153

Goats and Tiger - http://store.ovi.com/content/185875

Mobile Table Tennis - http://store.ovi.com/content/188483

Snooker - http://store.ovi.com/content/55409

Fun Chess - http://store.ovi.com/content/84677

Mobi Archer - http://store.ovi.com/content/127638

Hat-Trick - http://store.ovi.com/content/119532

Coming soon…

King of Kings

Mini Carrom

Parkour Challenge

Word Rider

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Nextwave’s Hit21 Deluxe wins at ‘Nokia Calling All Innovators 2011’ for Nokia N8′

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Nextwave Multimedia wins a prize at the ‘Nokia Calling All Innovators 2011′ for its’ game Hit21 Deluxe. Based on the number of downloads and game quality Hit 21 Deluxe won the third prize in the ‘Cards and Casino games’ category. The winner was announced on 18th August and the award given away on 25th Aug at Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley, USA. Last year we won the grand prize at this event.

Hit21 Deluxe an unique game with cards was jointly developed by Nextwave Multimedia, India and Ikoncity, UK. The game actually requires you to think and not leave things to chance. You have to be quick in your arithmetic to win this game.

To download the game click http://store.ovi.com/content/185941

To know more about the event check http://www.callingallinnovators.com/10m/winners.aspx#games

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Award for the Best use of Technology for U-Truck launch

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Event & Entertainment Management Association (EEMA), an organization that represents the Event and Entertainment industry in India, holds EEMAX Awards every year to recognize and reward the best efforts of its members.

In the EEMAX Awards 2011, our associates, Showspace Event, won the Silver Trophy for the ‘Best use of Technology’. It was given for the launch of the Ashok Leyland’s U-Truck range. At the heart of this event was the audio-visual on U-Truck produced by Nextwave Multimedia.

The AV is a first of its kind in India. To the best of our knowledge, never before has stereoscopic 3D been used in corporate communication. By ’stereoscopic 3D’ we mean the ‘Avatar’ kind, where you need special glasses and elements from the screen come right at you, seeming to leap out. U-Truck is Ashok Leyland’s technologically most advanced range of vehicles, a first in the industry in India.  The AV too uses a technology never before seen in a product launch in our country.

We developed ‘Mr. U-man’, a giant robot-like 3D character to represent the U-Truck range, and interacting with him on the screen was Ashok Leyland’s Executive Director - Marketing. We had 3D animations of parts and features of the truck separating out from the vehicle and coming on to the audience while Mr. U explained its features and benefits in his mechanical, super human voice.

The audience, wearing the special glasses, sat wonderstruck in their seats as they watched the aggregates of the vehicles popping out of the screen and coming right on to their faces. The EEMAX 20011 Silver Trophy for the Best use of Technology’ is truly deserved.

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Nextwave Multimedia features in ‘Intel AppUp developer program’ radio spot

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Intel AppUp recently concluded a radio campaign to encourage developers to join the Intel AppUp developers program. Three radio spots discussed Nextwave Multimedias’ prize winning app ‘Comics Creator’ and the popular e-comic Panchatantra Tales; Mr. PR Rajendran, of the Company also gave his testimonial about the opportunities provided by Intel to young developers.

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Nextwave Multimedia features in Blendernation

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Blender.org the official site for Blender, an open source 3D software, has featured the 3 newly launched, cricket games by Nextwave in its’ news page Blendernation.

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NDTV Hindu News Features Cricket Game Developed by Nextwave Multimedia

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

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Nextwave Multimedia launches series of 3D cricket games on multiple platforms

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Nextwave Multimedia launches three cricket games in 3D, ‘World Cricket Championship’, ‘Street Cricket’ and ‘Beach Cricket’. With rich visuals, realistic animation and crisp camera movements the game easily transports the gamer to the scene of action. It imbibes the thrill, fun, and high voltage drama of limited over cricket very convincingly.

The 3 cricket games are developed for multiple platforms - Windows OS, Apple Mac; iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), and Android OS.

A team of 15 artists, animators and programmers worked on the games for a year to achieve the desired result.

Street Cricket is the first 3D cricket game with Augmented reality (AR) incorporated. This mode allows you to play the game on any flat surface; table top, on the floor, palm of your hand and more….. This version will be soon on android and ipad.

Technology behind the game

Blender: Low polygonal 3D modelling, uv unwrapping, rigging, character animation and seamless game environment are completely done with Blender 2.49.

Unity 3D: The completed assets were exported from Blender and put together through Unity 3D game engine. The same was used to achieve inbuilt physics in the ball movement, sunlight effect, collision impacts, audio simulations and players animation, which create an overall realistic ambience, simulating a live match

World Cricket Championship

WCC can be played in 2 modes, ‘Quick Play’ for short play and ‘Tournament’ format for unlimited hours. The game involves choosing ones’ own side and opponent and as in real cricket, gamers have the option to bat or to field.

The games are already launched on the following stores and will soon be available on Nokia Ovi Store and Facebook.

Stores on which the game is available

Android
WCC Lt (free)
WCC Pr (paid)

iPad
WCC Lite (free)
WCC Pro (paid)

iPhone
WCC (paid)

Mac App Store
WCC (paid)

Intel AppUp:
WCC (free)
WCC (paid)

Google Chrome Web Store
WCC (free)
WCC (paid)

Beach Cricket

In this version get a taste of the sun, sand and the sea while the willow smacks the cherry!

Stores on which the game is available

Android

Beach Cricket Pro (paid)

Intel AppUp
Beach Cricket (free)
Beach Cricket (paid)

iPad
Beach Cricket (paid)

iPhone
Beach Cricket (paid)

Mac Store
Beach Cricket Pro (paid)

Chrome Web Store App
Beach Cricket Pro (paid)

Street Cricket

The game convincingly depicts an ordinary street cricket scenario in every city of India. And as in such games rules are modified to suit the ground situation while the usual excitement of the game remains intact.

Stores on which the game is available

Android

Street Cricket Pro (paid)

Intel AppUp
Street Cricket (paid)
Street Cricket (free)

iPad
Street Cricket Pro (paid)

iPhone
Street Cricket Pro (paid)

Mac Store

Street Cricket Pro (paid)

Chrome Web Store App
Street Cricket Pro (paid)

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