WinZo Announces Partnership with Rein Games and Deftouch to Reach 20M Users
WinZo, the social gamin💝g platform, has partnered with Rein Games and Deftouch to reach 20 million Indian users with live multi-player pool and cricket games.
WinZo is backed by mobile messaging app Hike and investment group Kaala𒈔ri Capital, who also back Deftouch. Rein Games counts on the support of Titan Capital, making this a significant tie-up for the Indian g🎉aming industry.
In the last few months alone, WinZo has put pen to paper on deals with over 50 indie developers and gaming studios, including Garena - famous for th❀e runaway success of its FreeFire game - and Nazara Technologies.
The🐠 mobile e-Sports gaming platform also recently announc๊ed a contract with Tecent to make PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUGB) tournaments available in 12 languages.
Much of WinZo's success is down to its micro-transaction model, which makes gaming 𒀰accessible to a huge audience, and has helped drive 10X growth in the past year.
GLaws did an exclusive interview last year with WinZO CEO Paavan Nanda, where he ꦏdiscusses his vision of a vernacular gaming platform.
Noida-based start-u🐲p Rein Games was founded in 2018 and is best known for their R8 Ball Pool Pro product. Together with WinZo, the pair 𝄹have improved this offering to include hyper-realistic features and the ability for users to play with friends in India's first-ever private real-time pool experience.
Within one week of the launch of Poo💟l on its platform, WinZO is seeing an average time ꦰspent on the game of nearly an hour, .
WinZO has combined with Deftouch to monetize their biggest game, All Star Cricket. All Star Cricket is one of the mཧost popular multi-player cricket games. Now the game is truly multi-player, with players able to bat, while their friends bowl and vice versa.
Saumya Singh Rathore, Co-Founder of WinZO, said of the new partnerships: "Gaming + Music + Movies, globally. We are thrilled to𒁏 partner with the best teams to disrupt game monetization and to bring real-time social gaming experience to Bharat - truly the new age way of hanging out together.
"With WinZO's Game Developer Console its easier to partner with transparency and co-build the gaming ecosystem with game developers of the cཧountry. GDC gives the direct access of WinZO's 100% paying players to these developers/studios to monetize their games to their full potential on our platform. The entire gaming ecosystem is coming together to solve for the entertainment of Bharat in a sustainable fashion."
Vaibhav Gupta, Founder Rein Games, added: "Our decision to collaborate with WinZO was a very intuitive one as we see a huge potential in this partnership. Not only shall the users of WinZO be able to enjoy the most authentic Pool𝓰 experience out there, bu🧔t we will also be able to cater to a larger audience, esp. non-metro, which is WinZO’ s stronghold in a sense and provide them with great user experience. What is also incredible about this partnership is the value alignment between the two organizations about customer focus and we are extremely sure that this partnership will create great value for both the organizations."
