{"id":7463,"date":"2010-04-05T06:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7463"},"modified":"2018-08-10T19:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:38:55","slug":"reliances-codemasters-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/reliances-codemasters-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Big Entertainment Invests in Codemasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/reliance-logo-S.jpg\" alt=\"reliance-logo-S\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/>APRIL 5, 2010 \u2022 Reliance Big Entertainment, the parent of India&#8217;s Zapak Digital Ent. portal, has acquired a 50% share of publisher Codemasters. Zapak will oversee Codemasters operations moving forward. Terms were not disclosed. Zapak bills itself as India&#8217;s largest gaming company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Impact: Zapak, is the largest company in the still nascent India game market.\u00a0 However, it is a minor portion of a much larger conglomerate, Reliance ADA, a company with about $16 billion in revenue.\u00a0 Reliance Big Entertainment is the media and entertainment division of Reliance ADA.\u00a0 Most of its focus has been on the film industry, and in 2008 Reliance helped fund a venture with DreamWorks SKG that allowed the later company independence from Paramount Pictures.\u00a0 So for Reliance, the Codemaster investment is comparatively minor.\u00a0 For its part, Codemasters has been actively looking for this type of investment deal for several years.\u00a0 Codemasters is best known for racing games.<\/span><\/em><i>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 5, 2010 \u2022 Reliance Big Entertainment, the parent of India&#8217;s Zapak Digital Ent. portal, has acquired a 50% share of publisher Codemasters. Zapak will oversee Codemasters operations moving forward. Terms were not disclosed. Zapak bills itself as India&#8217;s largest gaming company. Impact: Zapak, is the largest company in the still nascent India game market.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,177,78],"tags":[291,424,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16869,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/16869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}