Online gaming firms are suspending their real-money gaming operations in the wake of the Parliament passing the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, on Thursday to enforce a blanket ban on all forms of real-money online games, while encouraging the growth of e-sports and free-to-play social games.
“As a matter of abundant caution and in due respect of the government’s mandate, Moonshine Technologies, an associate company in which Nazara Technologies Limited holds a 46.07 per cent stake, has ceased offering real money online gaming operations,” a stock exchange filing from Nazara said.
The scrips of the company were down 4.13 per cent at the BSE on Friday.
WinZO, which holds a portfolio of over 100 real-money games, said it is “responsibly withdrawing impacted offerings” in full compliance with the law of the land, effective from Friday.
Mobile Premier League (MPL) has also suspended all of its real-money gaming offerings in India. “Effective immediately, we are suspending all gaming offerings involving money on the MPL platform in India.
“Our foremost priority is our users. While new deposits will no longer be accepted, customers will be able to withdraw their balances seamlessly. However, online money games will not be available on the MPL platform anymore,” it said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday.
According to the India Gaming Report 2025, India accounts for around 20 per cent of the world’s gaming user base and 15.1 per cent of global gaming app downloads.
