All aboard. The India mobile game train is about to depart

If you’re looking for growth in mobile games, India is the place.

In 2008, Apple launched the App Store, changing the game market forever. While in hindsight it would have made perfect sense to immediately launch games on mobile, it wasn’t so clear-cut for companies at the time. Facebook games had just taken off, and Sand Hill Road/Wall Street darlings like Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, Kabam, and Kixeye were generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from Web games.