Exverse
Venture Round in 2024
Exverse is a pioneering AI-driven gaming platform offering an immersive free-to-play experience across three distinct planets. It combines action-oriented gameplay with world-building capabilities, allowing players to earn and trade NFT items within its metaverse.
Aquiris
Acquisition in 2023
Founded in 2007, Aquiris is a Brazilian game studio specializing in 3D games for browser, PC, and mobile platforms. Known for titles like 'CN Superstar Soccer' and 'The Great Prank War', the company focuses on delivering high-quality gameplay experiences.
VRJAM is a developer of a real-time streaming platform that specializes in creating immersive music and entertainment experiences in virtual and augmented reality. The company collaborates with leading content creators, celebrities, and brands to engage consumers through innovative technologies that integrate artificial intelligence, Web3, gaming, and virtual reality. By facilitating the creation of digital content and virtual live events, VRJAM aims to redefine the fan experience in the digital space. Its offerings include the monetization of experiences through a native cryptocurrency and the development of unique NFTs tailored for the virtual environment of VRJAM.
Aquiris
Corporate Round in 2022
Founded in 2007, Aquiris is a Brazilian game studio specializing in 3D games for browser, PC, and mobile platforms. Known for titles like 'CN Superstar Soccer' and 'The Great Prank War', the company focuses on delivering high-quality gameplay experiences.
Harmonix Music Systems
Acquisition in 2021
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. is a video game development studio based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. The company specializes in creating music-oriented video games that allow users to engage with music through gameplay across various platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Harmonix is well-known for its successful franchises, such as Rock Band and Dance Central, and was the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The studio focuses on providing interactive entertainment that enables players, regardless of musical background, to experience the joy of making music.
Manticore Games
Series C in 2021
Manticore Games, Inc. is a game development company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company specializes in creating Core, a comprehensive platform that allows users to build, share, and play online games. It serves as an accessible game construction kit and social gaming environment, designed to empower individuals with little to no coding experience to create and publish their own games quickly. Manticore Games aims to foster a vibrant community of game makers and players, providing an endless universe of interactive experiences for users to explore. The team comprises industry veterans with extensive backgrounds in PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality gaming.
Tonic Games
Acquisition in 2021
Tonic Games Group, founded in 2005 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing and publishing multiplayer video games. The company was previously known as Mediatonic Holdings Limited before changing its name in August 2019. Tonic Games Group creates immersive entertainment experiences across various themes such as crime, adventure, and combat, catering to gamers of all ages with unique and engaging content.
Voltaku
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Voltaku is a company that specializes in creating immersive live stories that engage fans across various media platforms, including mobile devices and the Metaverse. By focusing on the realms of anime, manga, and gaming, Voltaku offers innovative worldbuilding and character-driven narratives tailored for the otaku market. The company utilizes game engine-powered virtual production tools, leveraging agile and lean methodologies from software and game development to enhance efficiency in creating and distributing its content. This approach allows Voltaku to produce unique virtual characters and interconnected stories that transcend traditional boundaries, inviting audiences into expansive digital worlds.
Omeda Studios
Grant in 2020
Founded in London in 2020, Omeda Studios is a game developer specializing in cross-platform third-person multiplayer online battle arena games. Their debut title, Predecessor, an action shooter MOBA for PC and console, has already garnered significant community interest with over 35,000 Discord fans and 100,000 signups prior to its release.
Manticore Games
Corporate Round in 2020
Manticore Games, Inc. is a game development company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company specializes in creating Core, a comprehensive platform that allows users to build, share, and play online games. It serves as an accessible game construction kit and social gaming environment, designed to empower individuals with little to no coding experience to create and publish their own games quickly. Manticore Games aims to foster a vibrant community of game makers and players, providing an endless universe of interactive experiences for users to explore. The team comprises industry veterans with extensive backgrounds in PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality gaming.
Cubic Motion
Acquisition in 2020
Cubic Motion, established in 2009 and headquartered in Manchester, UK, specializes in designing and developing automated, performance-driven facial animation solutions. The company's flagship product, Persona, is a hardware and software system that captures and translates an actor's performance onto their digital counterpart in real-time. Cubic Motion licenses its technology for real-time visual tracking and animation in various industries, including video games, films, broadcast media, and AR/VR. Its services encompass facial animation, body animation, scene finishing, facial rigging, performance capture support, and on-site support, with applications ranging from AR/VR to industrial inspection and medical image analysis. As of 2020, Cubic Motion operates as a subsidiary of Epic Games, Inc.
Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.
Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.
Lutris is an Open Source gaming platform for Linux. It installs and launches games so you can start playing without the hassle of setting up your games. With support for dozens of gaming platforms and the help of community backed installers, Lutris can play nearly every video game ever created!
Blender.org offers Blender, professional open-source 3D computer graphics software for various applications. Blender can be used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications, and video games.
Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing, and compositing.
Blender is compatible with Linux, Windows, and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To run this program the minimum hardware requirements include a 32-bit dual core 2 GHz CPU with SSE2 support, 2 GB RAM, OpenGL card with 256 MB video RAM, and 1280×768 pixels display.
Psyonix
Acquisition in 2019
Psyonix Inc. is a video game developer based in San Diego, California, founded in 2012. As a subsidiary of Epic Games, Psyonix is recognized for its expertise in Unreal Engine technology, which it utilizes to create engaging gaming experiences. The company specializes in developing games that support both single-player and multiplayer modes, allowing players to connect and enjoy gaming with others online. Psyonix is best known for its critically acclaimed titles, contributing significantly to the gaming industry.
Agog Labs
Acquisition in 2019
Agog Labs Inc. is a software development company located in Victoria, Canada, specializing in tools for the gaming industry. It is known for SkookumScript, a programming language and tool suite designed to enhance game play creation in video games. Agog Labs licenses SkookumScript as middleware to a range of clients, including both major AAA studios and smaller indie developers, and provides a comprehensive plugin for Unreal Engine 4. The company aims to establish SkookumScript as the preferred scripting standard across all video game genres and platforms. SkookumScript has been utilized in notable gaming projects, such as Sleeping Dogs and Triad Wars, highlighting its effectiveness and versatility in game development. As a subsidiary of Epic Games, Inc., Agog Labs continues to innovate within the gaming industry.
Kamu is a Finnish company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki. It specializes in providing services to developers and publishers in the gaming industry, focusing on multiplayer game management, game security, gameplay analytics, and anti-cheat technology. By offering these essential live services, Kamu aims to enhance the gaming experience and ensure the integrity of online gameplay. The company operates as a subsidiary of Epic Games, further strengthening its position within the gaming ecosystem.
Cloudgine
Acquisition in 2018
Cloudgine Ltd is a cloud gaming company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, founded in 2012 and operates as a subsidiary of Epic Games. The company focuses on developing a cloud gaming platform that is optimized for multiplayer games and integrates seamlessly with existing game engines. This platform enables game developers to create innovative game mechanics that would be difficult or economically unfeasible to achieve with traditional online gaming architectures. In addition to cloud gaming, Cloudgine also explores virtual reality development and other entertainment technologies tailored for the video game industry.