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		<title>By: TCDINFOLINE</title>
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		<dc:creator>TCDINFOLINE</dc:creator>
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		<description>Sub: Looking for Animation project

Dear Sir/Madam, 
TCDINFOLINE is a leading 2D/3D Animation, Cell Animation, Game Animation , Digital Animation , Animated TV series, Web design, Flash Web Design , Search Engine promotion and Multimedia presentation company based in Kolkata, India, and a large enough client base in kolkata, India. TCDINFOLINE.com is a global Animation-multimedia and web solutions provider. 

We provide complete Animation, web and media enabling services such as 2D/3D Animation, Cell Animation, Digital Animation, Game Animation , Animated TV series, web design, Flash and Design, web design , web development , search engine optimization, web promotion , multimedia and more. 

Over a period of time, we have built a very good team of creative people. 

TCDINFOLINE is one of the leading Digital media solution company at kolkata. Cell Animation, Digital Animation, Game Animation, Animated TV series, Animated Music video and more we provide for our client. Also we do flash animated web design and multimedia presentation company based in kolkata, India. And a large enough client base in kolkata, India.TCDINFOLINE.com is a global Animation-multimedia and web solutions provider.
Thanking you

Arpita Chatterjee
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sub: Looking for Animation project</p>
<p>Dear Sir/Madam,<br />
TCDINFOLINE is a leading 2D/3D Animation, Cell Animation, Game Animation , Digital Animation , Animated TV series, Web design, Flash Web Design , Search Engine promotion and Multimedia presentation company based in Kolkata, India, and a large enough client base in kolkata, India. TCDINFOLINE.com is a global Animation-multimedia and web solutions provider. </p>
<p>We provide complete Animation, web and media enabling services such as 2D/3D Animation, Cell Animation, Digital Animation, Game Animation , Animated TV series, web design, Flash and Design, web design , web development , search engine optimization, web promotion , multimedia and more. </p>
<p>Over a period of time, we have built a very good team of creative people. </p>
<p>TCDINFOLINE is one of the leading Digital media solution company at kolkata. Cell Animation, Digital Animation, Game Animation, Animated TV series, Animated Music video and more we provide for our client. Also we do flash animated web design and multimedia presentation company based in kolkata, India. And a large enough client base in kolkata, India.TCDINFOLINE.com is a global Animation-multimedia and web solutions provider.<br />
Thanking you</p>
<p>Arpita Chatterjee<br />
Director<br />
TCDINFOLINE
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		<title>By: Yazan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yazan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gaming is alive and well in the UAE.  In contrast to what people who have commented believe piracy is not all that dwells here in the gaming scene in Dubai.

I live in dubai, I own a 360 with 14 games (Original, and the latest such as Gears 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3 and such).  I assure you to that someone who said people are not aware of torrenting, they ARE aware of what a torrent is.  MANY of them are.  There are extreme PC gear heads in Dubai, in any general crowd in any country you wont find many of these types.  You must know where to look.

Yes, alot of people play on PSN and Xbox live (Despite Xbox live not being introduced here) myself included.  Most releases are on par with our mostly european providers.  So we get most brand new titles around the same time as our european friends.  (And thank goodness for that in this oh season of AAA titles that are raining down on us.)

You will also be surprised to know how much of a non-arab population (excluding indians who make up a large portion) populate dubai.  The playstation and Sony shines brighter than Microsoft and even the PC sometimes.  With the Wii staggering to make a market here (well not &quot;Staggering&quot; but it is struggling in comparison to the competition)

Oh and, a 500 person line up infront of a games retailer at the midnight launch of WoW Wotlk speaks for its self.


Just adding in some general info from a proud U.A.E gamer of Arab origin.

I also think Gears of war 2 is the best thing since sliced bread.

-Yazan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gaming is alive and well in the UAE.  In contrast to what people who have commented believe piracy is not all that dwells here in the gaming scene in Dubai.</p>
<p>I live in dubai, I own a 360 with 14 games (Original, and the latest such as Gears 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3 and such).  I assure you to that someone who said people are not aware of torrenting, they ARE aware of what a torrent is.  MANY of them are.  There are extreme PC gear heads in Dubai, in any general crowd in any country you wont find many of these types.  You must know where to look.</p>
<p>Yes, alot of people play on PSN and Xbox live (Despite Xbox live not being introduced here) myself included.  Most releases are on par with our mostly european providers.  So we get most brand new titles around the same time as our european friends.  (And thank goodness for that in this oh season of AAA titles that are raining down on us.)</p>
<p>You will also be surprised to know how much of a non-arab population (excluding indians who make up a large portion) populate dubai.  The playstation and Sony shines brighter than Microsoft and even the PC sometimes.  With the Wii staggering to make a market here (well not &#8220;Staggering&#8221; but it is struggling in comparison to the competition)</p>
<p>Oh and, a 500 person line up infront of a games retailer at the midnight launch of WoW Wotlk speaks for its self.</p>
<p>Just adding in some general info from a proud U.A.E gamer of Arab origin.</p>
<p>I also think Gears of war 2 is the best thing since sliced bread.</p>
<p>-Yazan
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		<title>By: deadManWalKing</title>
		<link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/09/24/gamers-are-here-middle-east-gaming/#comment-110233</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh and I came across this page when searching for The Witcher Enhanced availability in India...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh and I came across this page when searching for The Witcher Enhanced availability in India&#8230;
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		<title>By: deadManWalKing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Insurgent Observer : I bought 3 games here and people started looking at me as if were not-quite-right-in-the-mind :P
Games are still at the upper levels of affordability even when heavily discounted compared to international prices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Insurgent Observer : I bought 3 games here and people started looking at me as if were not-quite-right-in-the-mind :P<br />
Games are still at the upper levels of affordability even when heavily discounted compared to international prices.
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		<title>By: Moody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice article and really nails the scene in th gulf area in regards to gaming. This is from a person who lives in Oman which is next to UAE (east of UAE).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice article and really nails the scene in th gulf area in regards to gaming. This is from a person who lives in Oman which is next to UAE (east of UAE).
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		<title>By: Ozzie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;(TMI, rite?) &lt;/blockquote&gt;

I had to look that up, but, not really.</description>
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<p>I had to look that up, but, not really.
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		<title>By: Vandell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not a personal fan of Dubai, being gay and quite sexually exploratory (TMI, rite?) I simply wouldn&#039;t be able to stand the bans of various games, either.</description>
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		<title>By: Mo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Markor8: I used to go for Gitex every year. :)</description>
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		<title>By: Insurgent Observer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting, but more or less what I expected from experience with the Indian scene. Someone should do an article on the gaming scene here in India. The salient characteristics remain the same:

1. The staple diet consists of bootlegged copies of Need For Speed, FIFA irrelevant-year-here, Cricket irrelevant-year-here and Grand Theft Auto version-that-can-run-on-intel-graphics-adapters. And of course, Counter Strike and Age of Empires (um, yeah). 
Any mention of Deus Ex, Bioshock, Stalker, Gears of War or KOTOR- y&#039;know, &lt;i&gt;games&lt;/i&gt;, leaves people puzzled and confounded.
2. Piracy is the norm. Surprisingly, a large fraction of the teenage crowd have not discovered torrents yet, so most piracy involves either buying bootlegged copies for Rs. 100-200 (2-3 Euros), or passing around DVDs in classrooms and campuses. The idea of buying games is fairly alien- and somewhat ridiculous given their mindset (&quot;I &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; pay for the PC, didn&#039;t I?&quot;). 
3. Consoles are far from pervasive, probably because it&#039;s hard to convince your (philistine) parents to buy you something that you can only play games with. As opposed to a PC, which salespeople assure have &quot;educational uses&quot;.
Also, pirated console games are much harder to find.   
4. No graphics cards! Most people who play games don&#039;t even know what that means. To them, the PC is still a hermetically sealed product, like a TV. Graphics cards are also prohibitively expensive (about twice as much as in the US), so most people are still stuck playing games from the early 2000s on awful resolutions.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://rightshift.info/?p=52&quot; title=&quot;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I could go on&lt;/a&gt;, but I suppose that&#039;s long enough for a comment. The generation of gamers who lend some respect to gaming when they grow up and become professionals is possibly yet to arrive in India. For now, though, the worse-than-outright-contempt attitude prevails.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting, but more or less what I expected from experience with the Indian scene. Someone should do an article on the gaming scene here in India. The salient characteristics remain the same:</p>
<p>1. The staple diet consists of bootlegged copies of Need For Speed, FIFA irrelevant-year-here, Cricket irrelevant-year-here and Grand Theft Auto version-that-can-run-on-intel-graphics-adapters. And of course, Counter Strike and Age of Empires (um, yeah).<br />
Any mention of Deus Ex, Bioshock, Stalker, Gears of War or KOTOR- y&#8217;know, <i>games</i>, leaves people puzzled and confounded.<br />
2. Piracy is the norm. Surprisingly, a large fraction of the teenage crowd have not discovered torrents yet, so most piracy involves either buying bootlegged copies for Rs. 100-200 (2-3 Euros), or passing around DVDs in classrooms and campuses. The idea of buying games is fairly alien- and somewhat ridiculous given their mindset (&#8220;I <i>did</i> pay for the PC, didn&#8217;t I?&#8221;).<br />
3. Consoles are far from pervasive, probably because it&#8217;s hard to convince your (philistine) parents to buy you something that you can only play games with. As opposed to a PC, which salespeople assure have &#8220;educational uses&#8221;.<br />
Also, pirated console games are much harder to find.<br />
4. No graphics cards! Most people who play games don&#8217;t even know what that means. To them, the PC is still a hermetically sealed product, like a TV. Graphics cards are also prohibitively expensive (about twice as much as in the US), so most people are still stuck playing games from the early 2000s on awful resolutions.<br />
<a href="http://rightshift.info/?p=52" title="" rel="nofollow">I could go on</a>, but I suppose that&#8217;s long enough for a comment. The generation of gamers who lend some respect to gaming when they grow up and become professionals is possibly yet to arrive in India. For now, though, the worse-than-outright-contempt attitude prevails.
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		<description>Mo i think you have heard of Gitex in Dubai(computer and electronics exhibition) But this  year they are doing a special venue for gamers both pc and console, its gonna be happening here in October, MAN I CANT WAIT FOR IT!!!</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about them.</description>
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		<title>By: ur-eka-poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what about girl gamers :(</description>
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