Wildlife Studios and Winners Alliance right now introduced a significant licensing partnership, bringing Naomi Osaka and different stars to the hit cellular sport Tennis Conflict.
Tennis Conflict has been performed by greater than 170 million customers worldwide. By means of the settlement, Wildlife Studios now holds rights to function the names, pictures, and likenesses of choose males’s and girls’s gamers, marking the primary time formally licensed gamers will seem in Tennis Conflict.
Launched in 2019, Tennis Conflict is likely one of the most downloaded cellular sports activities video games globally. Wildlife Studios – based in 2011 – has launched greater than 60 video games and surpassed 4 billion lifetime downloads throughout its portfolio.
Beginning Could 23, customers can compete as four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who debuts in a customized outfit impressed by her 2024 U.S. Open look.
Wildlife Studios will introduce at the very least three extra licensed participant characters later this yr, with extra in improvement. The combination of actual gamers brings much more realism and depth to the sport, permitting followers to expertise tennis in a extra immersive, genuine, and private method. By means of interactive avatars, the game’s prime stars are linked with Tennis Conflict’s huge world viewers in ways in which reimagine how tennis is performed, promoted, and skilled.
“Winners Alliance is proud to carry skilled tennis gamers right into a platform as dynamic and far-reaching as Tennis Conflict,” stated Eric Winston, president of Winners Alliance, in an announcement. “Wildlife Studios has taken nice care to mirror every athlete’s formally licensed identification, and that is just the start of what’s doable when gaming and athlete licensing come collectively at scale.”
“We attempt to make Tennis Conflict as genuine and entertaining as doable, which is why we’re excited to accomplice with Winners Alliance to welcome a few of the sport’s most beloved stars into the sport,” stated Giovanni Piffer, partnerships lead at Wildlife Studios, in an announcement. “We’re wanting to see how our gamers take pleasure in the brand new Naomi Osaka character and might’t wait to unveil the extra characters coming quickly. Tennis Conflict is giving players and tennis followers a brand new option to have interaction with the game – nearer, extra private, and extra interactive than ever earlier than.”
Winners Alliance is a world, athlete-centric industrial resolution devoted to creating novel group licensing, sponsorship, partnership, content material, funding and occasion alternatives for world-class athletes collectively.
Wildlife is likely one of the world’s largest cellular gaming publishers. In over ten years, it has launched greater than 60 video games, together with hits resembling Sniper 3D, Zooba, Tennis Conflict, Warfare Machines and Colorfy. Based by brothers Victor and Arthur Lazarte, the corporate’s video games have been downloaded greater than 4 billion instances throughout the planet.