Reliance Games is an international developer and

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known for several

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like ''

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'', ''Real Steel'', ''Real Steel WRB'', ''Total Recall,'' and ''Drone Shadow Strike w''ith about 200 million overall downloads through games launched across 40 countries on iTunes Store,

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, Amazon Store and

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. Headquartered in

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, It's a part of

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a wholly owned subsidiary of the

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in the media and entertainment business. Reliance Games has developed many mobile games in association with

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studios such as DreamWorks,

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and

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. Currently, Reliance Games has a global presence with game creating studios across the

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and

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with a focus on

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, runner and

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genres for

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, Amazon and

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platforms. Around 70 game titles have been created for Android and roughly 200 java-supported games. Headed by CEO Amit Khanduja, Reliance Games has announced plans to incubate and invest in gaming sector start-ups which involves sharing intellectual property with mentoring on engineering, product management and designing, and character illustration. As a part of its third-party publishing activity, the company helps game developers worldwide in publishing games on various platforms under a revenue-sharing model. North America, UK, Russia and Korea cater to 70% of the Revenue with 20% coming from India. As of September 2015, Reliance Games has over 200 million downloads on mobile games launched globally.

History

Reliance Games was founded in 2006. The first game in the series, ''Real Steel'' was launched as an extension of the DreamWorks 2011 action movie ''

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''. The Game received a ranking of No. 1 on iPad in five countries, top 5 among iPhone games in 27 countries and was in the top 10 games on Apple App Store in over 100 countries. In March 2013, Reliance Games acquired 100% stake in Funel, a Japanese mobile games development and publishing firm and a 51% in Bhusan-based Bluesom Inc. On 17 October 2013, Real Steel World Robot Boxing (a.k.a. ''Real Steel WRB'') the sequel of ''Real Steel'' was launched and within a few days the game had five million downloads and has been its most successful game title. In July 2013, ''Pacific Rim'' was introduced which tasked players to protect the world's cities from aliens which have risen from the seas to destroy humanity. The game is an extension of the film ''

'' by

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and was created in association with

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and

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. On 5 March 2015, Reliance Games in association with DreamWorks Studios announced the launch of ''Real Steel Champions'' which lets players build their own robots and fight with them to win the Championship. In September 2015, before the launch of the movie

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produced by

, Reliance Games introduced ''Hotel Transylvania 2 The Game''. This builder genre game includes all the characters and locations from the movie. Any player can customize their monster-land, participate in quests and play

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. On 30 June 2016, ''The BFG Game'' based on the movie ''The BFG'' directed by

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and the book '

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' written by

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made its debut for mobile devices, introduced by Reliance Games. In November 2022, Reliance Games and Atari partnered with each other to publish ''Citytopia''.

References

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External links

Reliance Games Official Website
Mobile game companies Reliance Entertainment subsidiaries