WinZo Announces Partnership with Rein Games and Deftouch to Reach 20M Users
WinZo, the social gaminꦬg platform, has partnered with Rein Games and Deftouch to reach 20 million Indian users with live mul𒊎ti-player pool and cricket games.
WinZo is backed by mobile messaging app Hike🍌 and invest♕ment group Kaalari Capital, who also back Deftouch. Rein Games counts on the support of Titan Capital, making this a significant tie-up for the Indian gaming 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 the runaway success of its FreeFire game - and Nazarಌa Technologies.
The mobile e-Sports gaming platform also recently announced a contract with Tecent to make Player💃Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUGB) tournaments available in 12 languages.
Much of WinZo's succes💖s is down to its micro-transaction model, which makes gamin🥀g accessible 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 discusses hi𒊎s vision of a vernacular gaming platform.
Noida-based start-up 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 Pool on its platform, WinZO is seeing an average time spent 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 most popular multi-player cricket games. Now the game is truly multi-player, with players ab💙le 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 to partner with the best teams to disrupt game monetization and to bri💝ng real-time social gaming experience to Bharat - truly the new age way of hanging out together.
"With Wi💛nZO's Game Developer Console its easier to partner with transparency and co-build the gaming ecosystem with game developers of the country. 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 G𒆙ames, 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 Pool experience out there, but 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 partnersh🧸ip 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."
