Gaming
Visiware and Digital+ launch Playin’TV in Spain
MUMBAI: Playin’TV, the interactive game channel, is now available on Digital+ in Spain.
Visiware, the publisher of Playin’TV, and Digital+, the major Spanish satellite TV broadcaster, announced on 1 June that they have signed an agreement whereby Visiware is providing the Playin’TV interactive games channel in Spain, says a press release.
Digital+ is the joint digital platform in operation since July 2003. Playin’TV has been launched simultaneously on both the OpenTV and the MediaHighway platforms operated by Digital+ starting 1 June 2004.
Playin’TV will provide a bouquet of 10 great games renewed every week based on a monthly subscription fee of 4.69 euros. Digital+ dominates the Spanish digital TV market with 1.8 million subscribers with an offering of 150 TV services, confirms the release.
Gaming
Nodwin Gaming sells EVO stake to RTS
Fighting game tourney eyes global push, Nodwin partners on emerging markets amid 58 per cent revenue surge to Rs 530.3 crore.
MUMBAI: Nodwin Gaming just pulled off the ultimate combo breaker ditching its full stake in EVO, the fighting game world’s undisputed champ, to long-time ally RTS. Announced on 20 February 2026, the move frees up firepower for EVO’s global scaling dreams, with hefty investments on the horizon. Nodwin isn’t vanishing though; it’ll stick around as a key partner, flexing its regional muscle, ops know-how, and community ties to grow the tourney in emerging markets like the Global South.
EVO, a two-decade FGC (Fighting Game Community) cornerstone, started as a grassroots huddle and morphed into esports royalty drawing players, publishers, and superfans worldwide. RTS steps up to steward this next-level expansion, honouring the community vibe while plotting world domination.
For Nodwin, it’s a savvy portfolio shuffle: honing in on high-growth zones, local IPs, and ecosystem builds. The timing’s spot-on, they flipped EBITDA positive in Q3 2025, boasting 58 per cent year-on-year revenue growth to Rs 530.3 crore (USD 58.5 million) over the first nine months of FY26.
Nodwin Gaming co-founder and managing director, Akshat Rathe, framed it neatly, “EVO represents the passion, resilience, and spirit of the fighting game community… For Nodwin, this is a strategic step that sharpens our focus on markets where gaming is witnessing extraordinary momentum.”
More details on EVO’s emerging-market playbook with Nodwin drop soon. In esports terms, it’s like trading a legendary skin for upgrades smart meta shift that keeps everyone in the arena swinging.
