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High Noon
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios raises $1.4 million
Closing down on a Summer 2017 release for Exiles of Embermark
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Underdogs Come Good
The Indian indie game developer's road to funding
UnderDOGS CEO Vaibhav Chavan chats at NGDC
Taking Flight
Creative England and Barclays launch £25,000 Eagle Lab Flight accelerator for VR, AR and mobile apps
Eight teams to be taken on a three month mentoring program
Instant Vikings
Big Viking Games opens $10 million publishing fund for HTML5 messenger platforms like Facebook's Instant Games
Offering development tools and analytics for interested parties
Game Alliance
Tilting Point establishes $12 million Game Alliance fund for indie UA campaigns
Helping developers grow while retaining their independence
'ow Much?
Creative England launches £300,000 fund for Yorkshire-based developers
Grants of up to £30,000 offered for prototype development
Funding News
Mobile market intelligence firm Apptopia raises $2.7 million in funding round led by Ashton Kutcher's VC firm
US firm aims to make app economy more transparent
Simple Funding
Ex-Zynga devs raise $4 million for new Indian studio PlaySimple Games
Mobile studio aims to double number of staff by the end of 2017
Clash Of Wangs
Adult gaming platform Nutaku opens $10 million fund to add mature content to existing mobile games
Offers a new platform for those willing to embrace smut
Big Funding Deal
HTML5 developer Big Viking Games seeks further $60 million funding after raising $21.75 million
"We truly believe that HTML5 is the future"
Games Fund
UK Games Fund offering £25,000 to developers to make new games
£1.3 million in grants handed out to date
Start-up Funding
Mobile and VR start-up Playsnak raises $1.3 million funding from South Korean investor
Former Crytek, NCSoft, EA and Nintendo staff open new studio
Crushing It
Mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $20 million
Platform has over one million monthly active users
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Big Money
Oculus takes virtual reality developer funding up to $500 million as it searches for the killer app
A quarter of what Facebook spent to buy Oculus
Moomin On Up
Finnish start-up Snowfall raises €1 million to bring Moomin mobile games to Asia
Turku-based studio eyes up niche market
Strong Tactics
Israeli hardcore strategy developer Tacticsoft raises $1 million to work on ambitious new game
London Venture Partners and Gigi Levy-Weiss invest
Optimal Funds
Customer marketing cloud Optimove closes $20 million growth funding round
Looks to hire aggressively in New York
A Cut Above
Razer establishes $30 million investment arm zVentures for VR, Android games and other tech ventures
$5 million set aside for VR alone
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Gtr Accelerator
Global Top Round incubator awards 10 studios $50,000 each to develop their games
Mentorship and publisher access on offer for the selected studios
Futureplay Funding
View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games raises $2.5 million to boost its business
Increasing its team and production capabilities
Dig Deep
Despite huge funding rounds, most VR developers are funding projects out of their own pockets
Not so lucrative after all
Mo-mo-motorious
Helsinki start-up Motorious Entertainment secures $566,000 to work on Top Gear mobile games
First game a match-3 puzzler
Casting Investment
Tencent-led Series C round pushes total investment in Chinese gamecasting platform Douyu TV to over $2 billion
Had previously helped investment push over $1 billion
Firefly Funding
Firefly Games closes $10 million funding round to work on Hollywood IPs
Also looking into VR and eSports
Bossa Investment
Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million for new multiplayer and VR games
London Venture Partners fronts the cash
Make It Huuuge
Huuuge Games raises $4.6 million to grow social casino games business globally
Investment led by Woori Technology Investment
Funding Stimulator
Job Simulator dev Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games
Studio believes VR will be as big as mobile
Tricking The Eye
Chinese Global VR Challenge runner-up Mirage Interactive raises $1.5 million
Investment led by SongHe Capital and Wistone
New Blood
Ambitious Spanish dev Codigames raises $1 million
Dungeon Legends and beyond
Indian Mavens
Indian Mavens discuss the value of Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal's new early stage game investment fund
And is Vishal Gondal the one to provide it?
New Channel
Flexion gains $2 million for its new Gamesmondo distribution and affiliate platform
Horizon 2020 gives grant
War Chest
DFJ Growth leads Unity funding round of $181 million
Barry Schuler joins the board
Giving Back
Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal launches early stage game investment fund
Vishal Gondal is interested in more than just mobile
Incentive And Opportunity
GameFounders Malaysia extends deadline to 20 June, increases investment to $25,000
More to play for, more time to apply
The Pitch
Why developers and publishers need to look beyond a one-night-stand to eternal bliss
Italic Pig's Kevin Beimers on longterm relationships
Tranzfuser Infusion
UK Games Fund's student competition Tranzfuser announces its first entrants
20 teams competing for a chance to pitch their prototypes
New Funding
GREE announces new $65 million investment fund for startups
B2B and B2B2C companies being targeted
Appboy Funding
Appboy closes $20 million funding round
Funding to be spent on growth in Europe
Publisher Panel
Video: The role of publishers, according to the publishers themselves
What they look for and what they can do for you
Pure Gold
Video: The golden rules for raising funding from institutional investors
Inside track for cash
Prototype Payment
What UK developers need to know about the UK Games Fund
Up to £25,000 for developers to build prototypes
Kickstarter Knowledge
Rockfish's Michael Schade on how to run a Kickstarter campaign
Be prepared, and don't overpromise
Go Pokemon Go
Niantic Labs extends its funding for Pokemon GO and other location games to $25 million
Still working on Ingress and new titles
Investment Investigation
Video: Ignited Artists on the 6 types of funding
Six ways to get funded
Funding And Features
Video: Flow State Media on how to get funded and featured
Get money, then get more money
Not Taxing
Why did Myriad Associates come to PG Connects London 2016?
Barry Dowsett on R&D tax credits