Tag: Games
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Mission Control Games launches with $4M to develop new casual gaming sub-genres
Mission Control Games, a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre, has announced its launch alongside the close of a $4 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Arcadia Gaming Partners and e2vc. The studio was co-founded by Kıvanç Okutur (CEO) and Murat Gürel (CTO), both read more
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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East read more
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Cheer Games closes $4.5M pre-seed round for mobile gaming platform
Cheer Games, a mobile puzzle game studio, has raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Makers Fund, with participation from Play Ventures and a group of angel investors. Founded by former senior leaders from AppLovin’s Lion Studios, Cheer Games was established by Emre Gercel (CEO), Berkay Ozturk (CPO), Ertan Ünver (CTO), and read more
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TaleMonster Games closes $30M Series A round
TaleMonster Games, an Istanbul studio founded by former Peak Games veterans, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Point72 Ventures and General Catalyst. The new round comes roughly eight months after the company closed a $7 million seed round. The company’s first read more
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Iconic raises $13M seed to build AI-native, voice-driven games on device
Iconic, an interactive entertainment and AI-native platform company, has raised $13 million in its seed round, co-led by venture capital funds Kindred and Northzone, with further investment from leading industry players including Google’s AI Futures Fund. The round also brings together a highly curated group of the world’s top AI, gaming, and system engineering leaders read more
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