World Cricket Championship (mobile game)

World Cricket Championship (WCC), is an Indian 3D cricket simulation mobile video game franchise developed by Nextwave Multimedia. The WCC Lite is the first game of the WCC franchise which was launched and released in 2011. The updated versions WCC2 and WCC Rivals were also released under the WCC franchise. As of March 2020, WCC3 is currently ranked as the no. 1 mobile cricket game in the world with 110 million subscribers worldwide and with approximately 11 million monthly active users.[1][2] The game has reported an average of over 2.1 million daily active users and is one of the most downloaded cricket game franchise in the world.[3] The game is played worldwide mainly in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, UK, UAE and Sri Lanka.[4]

World Cricket Championship
Developer(s)Nextwave Multimedia
Publisher(s)Nextwave Multimedia
Platform(s)iOS, Microsoft, Android
Release2011
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In May 2020, the WCC franchise announced that the 4th game in the series, WCC3 which is a sequel to the WCC2 will have the Hindi commentary of the Indian cricket commentator Aakash Chopra.[5][6] Chopra was the first commentator to sign as commentator with a digital game platform.[7]

WCC Lite

The first version in the World Cricket Championship franchise, WCC Lite was officially released in 2011.

WCC2

WCC2 was officially released in 2015 and is a sequel to WCC.[8] This game has different commentary options in Hindi and English. The game features about 18 international teams, 42 cricket stadiums including all three formats of cricket (Tests, ODI and T20I). The game features 11 different tournaments including 50 over World Cup, NPL, ODI bilateral series, World T20 Cup, Asian Cup, Ashes-To-Ashes, 2 over blitz tournaments. WCC2 also consists of live cricket features such as Hot events featuring ongoing bilateral cricket series and social modules such as Gangs of Cricket, World Tour and Challenge a Friend. WCC2 also features 3 multiplayer formats such as offline multiplayer, online multiplayer and batting multiplayer. The WCC2 game was rated amongst top 10 games among monthly active users for 3 successive years from 2016 to 2018 since its launch. In March 2020, WCC2 was partnered with Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of the India's leading mobile gaming platforms.[9] WCC2 was listed as Google's Best of Games in 2015, 2016 & 2017 and was also listed as Apple's Best of Games in 2016, 2017 & 2018.[10]

WCC Rivals

It was launched in 2020 as the third game in the WCC franchise after WCC and WCC2. It is the first full featured real-time multiplayer cricket game on mobile.[11] On 6 February 2020, WCC Rivals introduced 2v2 multiplayer which eventually became the first ever mobile game to feature 2v2 real time cricket multiplayer.[12] The game was also the first to introduce esports ready-in game feature and first to have spectator/caster's mode.

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  7. "With IPL suspended due to Pandemic, Aakash Chopra to commentate on digital matches". Hindustan Times. 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  8. Ltd, Nextwave Multimedia Pvt. "Nextwave Multimedia Launches World Cricket Championship 2". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
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