How India’s Reliance Games is using movies to become a global mobile game publisher (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 26, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
7 min

Disclosure: The organizers of the Slush 2014 paid my way to Helsinki. Our coverage remains objective.

HELSINKI — Reliance Games is one of the biggest mobile games companies you’ve never heard of. But it has worked with some of the world’s leading brands and turned movies like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Real Steel into mobile games. The latter has seen more than 50 million downloads to date, and that puts India-based Reliance Games in the big leagues.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.