Prahlad claims he has lived without food or drink for the past 70 years, yet I can’t spend two hours playing World of Warcraft without having to pee. What could I possibly learn from this Indian holy man?
Barely four months after an Indian equity broker logged a world record by playing Grand Theft Auto IV for 40 hours and 20 minutes, a 19-year-old college kid in Tennessee has beaten it.
What did you do between September 4 and September 6? Twenty-six year-old private equity broker Chirantan Patnaik played Grand Theft Auto IV — for 40 hours and 20 minutes straight.
A group of talented folks do their version of Super Mario Bros. for television program India’s Got Talent.
If someone can pull off the needle-in-a-haystack search for a kid who managed a game parlour in the Indian Himalayas 10 years ago, a “mysterious benefactor” will send the arcade a Dreamcast.
Probably not. It’s located in the Indian city of Darjeeling (yes, like the tea), which sits 7,000 feet above sea level. And while it’s not much of an arcade, it still gets the record.
Never mind that Hanuman: Boy Warrior - billed as the first console game developed entirely in India - is a crappy game. It’s controversial! Well, to an American Hindu, anyway.
Following in the footsteps of their California kin, India’s Bollywood has started courting the video game market with their own movie stars.
Video games based on Hollywood movies are nothing new. Video games based on Bollywood movies are newer. Hit flick Ghajini is getting just that.
In late November, we brought word that game voice actor Michael Rudder (Far Cry Instincts, Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within, Splinter Cell) was among the casualties in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.