The recently enacted Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, which banned online real money games, has come as a major boon for the video game industry as it removed the long-standing ambiguity between video games and those that promote betting or gambling, according to the Game Developers Association of India (GDAI).

According to the representative organisation of video game developers, the policy clarity will also open up greater funding opportunities for the domestic industry, which is expected to grow tenfold to $10 billion by 2035.

“Gaming has always meant video gaming , but real money gaming had taken up so much bandwidth that the two became synonymous in India,” Manish Agarwal, board member, GDAI, told FE on the sidelines of the 17th India Game Developer Conference (IGD

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