Simply days after shutting down its real-money gaming (RMG) choices in keeping with India’s new on-line gaming legislation, Winzo has introduced the launch of its platform in the USA.
The Gurugram-based firm additionally unveiled its new short-form video content material platform referred to as ZO TV. “We’re on a mission to convey essentially the most thrilling, localised quick drama sequence to our 250 million customers on WinZO. The size is very large, the chance is actual, and we’re shifting quick, with all of the power and pleasure this deserves,” Saumya Singh Rathore, co-founder of Winzo, wrote in a publish on LinkedIn.
With the growth, Winzo now has a footprint in three of the world’s prime 4 gaming markets. The US is the world’s largest gaming market when it comes to income, the corporate mentioned in a press word on Sunday, August 24. Winzo started providing its providers in Brazil two years in the past.
The corporate additional mentioned it’s seeking to open the US market to Indian recreation builders by way of its plug-and-launch distribution mannequin.
Based in 2018, Winzo reported an working income of Rs 1,055 crore within the fiscal yr ending March 2024. Its growth to abroad markets and pivot towards micro-dramas is available in response to the brand new The Promotion and Regulation of On-line Gaming Act, 2025, which was handed by the Parliament final week and acquired the President’s assent on Friday, August 22.
It’s certainly one of a number of firms in India’s booming real-money gaming business that needed to shut down paid operations nearly in a single day because the Act imposes a blanket ban on all on-line cash video games regardless of whether or not they’re video games of talent or probability. It additionally applies to offshore RMG firms whose providers are accessible in India.
“In compliance with the brand new legislation, we’re responsibly withdrawing impacted choices w.e.f; twenty second August 2025; all service suppliers’ dues might be honoured; and all person balances might be safely refunded with none loss to a single person,” Winzo had mentioned shortly after the Invoice was handed.
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“Whereas increasing globally, WinZO will proceed to serve its Indian viewers with a number of choices lined up by way of its platform, whereas responsibly withdrawing restricted providers impacted by evolving rules,” the corporate mentioned on Sunday.
Winzo just isn’t alone in overhauling its whole enterprise mannequin within the wake of the blanket ban on on-line cash video games.
Dream11, the nation’s largest fantasy sports activities app and the Indian cricket staff’s primary jersey sponsor, additionally communicated to its workers that it’s going to wind down its actual cash operations. It’s reportedly launching a brand new gold mortgage app underneath a brand new service referred to as Dream Cash.
Different platforms similar to Zupee, Probo, and Cellular Premier League (MPL) have additionally shifted solely to free-to-play on-line social video games to adjust to the brand new legislation.
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