Blizzard Entertainment’s games – including Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, and of course, Overwatch – will now all be officially available in India, as the company announced a distribution partnership with x-press Interactive.

“We’re pleased to be working with e-xpress Interactive to bring our games to India,” said Gio Hunt, executive vice president of corporate operations at Blizzard Entertainment. “We pour a lot of ourselves into the experiences we create, so it’s important to us to be able to share them with the widest possible audience. We’re excited that this collaboration directly supports that goal and helps us welcome more Indian players into the global Blizzard community.”

Commenting on the partnership, Amit Khemani, Managing Director of e-xpress Interactive software Pvt Ltd, said, “We are thrilled to be working with Blizzard Entertainment. Blizzard’s reputation for creating quality games is widely known in India, and this announcement will bring great joy amongst the Indian gaming community. We highly admire Blizzard’s talent, passion and commitment to create such award-winning games, and we are committed to driving the success of their games in India.”

India is, of course, rapidly becoming a major market for video games, with it being one of the largest gaming markets in Asia currently- it makes sense that more publishers would want an official presence there. e-xpress is actually one of the largest distributors of video games in the country, with tie ups with many other video game publishers for local distribution arrangements, so Blizzard made the right choice in bringing its games to the country, that’s for sure.

E-Xpress Interactive, in associated with Games The Shop, recently held the national tournament finals for Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 in Mumbai. The winner of the 32 participants would go on to win a trip to Milan. In the end, it was Mumbai’s own Aniruddh Joshi who walked away with the grand prize.

Joshi stated that, “I cannot express how happy I am. I have been a PES player for 12 years and every year the game offers something new to the fans. After winning the Mumbai Qualifier, I practised every single day and it has paid off. I would like to thank Konami, e-xpress and Games The Shop for giving the Indian PES community a slot to play against the best PES players across the globe. It will be an honour to represent India in Milan and I will work harder to do well there”.

E-Xpress co-founder Anand Khemani weighed in on the win, stating that, “We would like to congratulate Aniruddh Joshi and wish him good luck for his Milan trip. His achievement will inspire budding e-sports players in the country. We would also like to thank the PES community for an overwhelming response to all the qualifiers and finals”.

e-xpress Interactive Software has announced a collaboration with Capcom for distributing the latter’s games in India. The deal will include Resident Evil Origins Collection on current gen platforms, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen for PC and Street Fighter 5 for PS4 and PC.

Prices are as you’d expect. Resident Evil Origins Collection will be available on January 19th 2016 for Rs. 2,499 on PS4 and Xbox One while the PC version will retail for Rs. 1,499. The bundle includes both Resident Evil HD Remaster and the upcoming remaster of Resident Evil 0.

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is an expansion on top of the base game (which is also included) and will retail for Rs. 1,499 when it releases for PC on January 2016. Street Fighter 5 will release in February 2016, costing Rs. 3,999 on PS4 and Rs. 1,999 on PC.

What are your thoughts on the Indian prices especially compared to earlier for Capcom games? Let us know in the comments below.

e-xpress Interactive Software, India’s leading distributor of video game software and accessories, have today announced that Tom Clancy’s The Division: Sleeper Agent Edition is up for pre-ordering in the country. The Sleeper Agent Edition will be available with leading retailers, both online and offline, and nets you quite a few cool bonuses.

These bonus items include a poster, and a high quality artbook. The full list of extra items available with the Special Sleeper Agent Edition is:

• Tom Clancy’s The Division game.
• The Agent Watch Replica: fully functional watch which glows like the in-game SHD watches.
• The Agent Armband, a convenient way to carry your most valuable equipment.
• A high quality art book including concept arts that inspired the game.
• “Save What Remains” Poster
• Exclusive Collector’s Box. Digital Content: Season Pass includes a full year of major expansions and exclusive benefits.

This special edition is priced at INR 11,999 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while the PC edition is priced at INR 9,999. The Standard Edition of the game is priced at INR 3,499 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while the PC version will set you back by INR 1,799.

The Division will on March 8, 2016 for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

e-xpress Interactive Software, India’s leading distributor of video game hardware, software, and accessories, as well as the official distributor of 2K Sports’ upcoming WWE 2K16, had announced an added incentive for Indian gamers to pre-order WWE 2K16- fans who have pre-ordered the game or who buy the game post release will get a chance to meet WWE superstar Daniel Bryan on November 3, 2015. They also stand a chance to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Belt Signed by WWE Superstar “Mark Henry.”

This incentive is available for orders across all retailers, both online and offline. Customers who have ordered the game will have to register here.

WWE 2K16 launched in North America on October 27- In India, it launches this Friday, on October 30 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. The game is priced at ₹ 3,499 for current gen consoles and ₹ 2,499 for old gen consoles. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage and information on the game.

In India, the PC gaming market is very strong, and the digital market not as much- keeping this fact in mind, most major PC games get physical releases in India too. Which is why the physical, retail version of Konami and Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is now available to pre-order on PC in India. Available at just INR 999, the PC version also has the added benefit of only being about a fourth as expensive as the console versions.

The PC version will be available at all leading retailers, including online retailers such as FlipKart and Amazon India. Leading Indian games distributor e-xpress Interactive will be responsible for handling the distribution of the game in the country, including for the PC version.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will launch worldwide, including in India, on September 1, for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC. Stay tuned for more coverage and information.

e-xpress Interactive, India’s leading distributor of video game hardware, software, and accessories, has announced that it will be releasing Bethesda and Arkane Software’s Dishonored: Definitive Edition in India this Fall, when it goes on sale for the rest of the world as well. To that end, the game is now available to pre-order in the country.

With Dishonored: Definitive Edition, players will now experience Dishonored, plus all of its additional content, on the new console systems for the first time, with wide-ranging changes and improvements, such as the enhanced graphics that take full advantage of the powerful hardware of this generation- PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Dishonored: Definitive Edition includes an upgraded version of the original game as well as all of its downloadable content like Dunwall City Trials, The Knife of Dunwall, The Brigmore Witches and Void Walker’s Arsenal. It’s also an excellent way for players to catch up on the series and its lore, while Arkane work on delivering Dishonored 2.

Dishonored: Definitive Edition is available for pre-orders at the price points of INR 2,999 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at all leading retailers in India.

Gaming as a hobby may be limited to a very small percentage of India’s overall population, but what people forget is that a small percentage of a billion is still a stupidly large number. That’s why more and more games and publishers are taking the territory so seriously.

For instance, e-xpress Interactive Software Pvt Ltd, India’s leading distributor of video games, has announced that it will be offering Indian players access to the closed beta of the eagerly anticipated Rainbow Six: Siege. You can get your code by pre-ordering the game. The game itself is releasing on October 13 2015. It will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at INR 3,499, while the PC version is priced at INR 1,499.

That’s not all, either- via their Games The Shop retail outlets, they also announced some exclusive pre-order bonuses for the eagerly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight. All gamers who pre-order Batman Arkham Knight will receive an official T-shirt with Harley Quinn story pack and Red Hood story pack. Batman Arkham Knight is releasing on June 23, 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The game is priced at INR 1,499 for PC and INR 3,499 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

e-xpress Interactive, one of India’s largest local distributors of video game software, hardware, and peripherals, has announced that it will be hosting a Mortal Kombat X cup in the country to celebrate the release of the tenth entry in the long running fighting game franchise, which it will be handling in the region.

The Indian qualifiers will be held on 2^nd and 3^rd of May at Oberoi Mall, Mumbai. The best Mortal Kombat players in the country will fight in a knockout format. There will be one finalist from India who will attend the Warner Bros. Final in France on the July 4-5.

The prize pool for the Indian qualifier round will be a total of₹30,000:

• The India Qualifiers Winner will qualify for a seat in the Grand Final taking place in Paris, France. He will also get a cash prize of INR 20,000
• The runner-up will get a cash prize of INR 7,500
• The 3rd place winner will get a cash prize of INR 2,500

Mortal Kombat X launches on Xbox One, PS4, and PC soon. A release on Xbox 360 and PS3 follows later this year.

Set to launch on March 18th in North America and March 20th in Europe – with the game having already been released in the UAE – Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes will be making its way to India on March 21st courtesy of e-xpress Interactive.

The game will retail at Rs. 1999 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. So if you feel like you’ve been stiffed lately on those PS4 purchases, than this comes as good news.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is part one of two games and will act as the prologue to the story being told. It will see Big Boss aka Solid Snake return to rescue Chico and Paz from the deadly XOF forces. It’s garnered quite a bit of controversy for being too short, especially considering the file size is only 3.82 GB on PS4, but initial impressions have been quite good. Are you getting the game for next gen? Let us know below.