BASH Gaming was a startup co-founded in 2008 by Sumit Gupta. It was captured by US-based Game Show Network (GSN) last year for $165 million. GSN is a joint gamble between DirecTV and Sony Picture Television which is producing television game shows such as Wheel of Fortune. They are also into authorizing their TV shows to casual mobile gaming companies.
BASH Gaming started out as a social casino gaming app on Facebook and eventually moved on to mobile floors such as iOS, Android and on the Amazon app store. Bingo Bash, one of BASH Gaming’s famous Bingo based game has around 40 million installations and over 4 million active users across the globe playing each other across devices. GSN plans to advantages the user base of BASH Gaming’s multi-player technology to build their own skill-based gaming platforms for real prize money.
