WORLD CRICKET CHAMPIONSHIP 3 ADDS ESPORTS MODE

World Cricket Championship 3, one of India’s few homegrown video games, has introduced a dedicated esports mode. 

The esports feature will allow users to host friendly tournaments while also facilitating seamless operations for organisers to host professional tournaments. Users will be able to spectate from various camera angles and shoutcast the matches.

WCC3 has featured in some of the most popular Indian esports tournaments, including Redbull M.E.O., Skyesports and LXG WCC tournaments, and the WCC franchise has racked up more than 155 million downloads.

The latest update also includes custom difficulty settings, ability to assign bowling actions alongside 7 new bowling actions, new cutscenes, challenge a friend mode, ability to capture highlights and more.

Next Wave Multimedia co-founder and CEO, P.R. Rajendran, said: “Given the exponential growth of esports in the country in the past few years and many requests from our fans, we thought it would be an opportune moment to launch the ‘Esports Lobby’. With the newest update we want to add value to the esports ecosystem with WCC3.”

The World Cricket Championship series has been created by Chennai-based Next Wave Multimedia Pvt. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Nazara Technologies Ltd.

Launched in November 2020, the third instalment is the latest in the series and offers new controls, real-time motion capture, as well as Hindi and English commentary from Aakash Chopra and Matthew Hayden respectively. 

The game has won the Indian Game Developers Conference’s Studio Game of the Year award and Google Play Store’s Users Choice Award 2020.

Earlier this year, Next Wave Multimedia announced it would be partnering with Anzu, to integrate in-game advertising into the World Cricket Championship franchise.