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Players of the Rush Gaming Universe can participate in a game economy where they can generate digital assets based on the outcome of their gameplay.

Earlier this year, Hike shut down its messaging platform, which competed with the likes of WhatsApp.

This comes a few months after Hike shuttered its primary messaging business and launched a competing gaming app called Rush.

Hike was founded in 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal, the son of telecom giant Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.

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Hike Messenger has just launched Stories to replace its timeline. It also rolled out an in-built camera with machine learning.

After its launch in India on Tuesday, video calling will be rolled out to over a billion WhatsApp users in 180 countries.

Indian messenger app Hike is rolling out video calling. All Android users will have the feature this week, while iOS users will get it very soon.

There’s over US$175 million in funding on this list.