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Legionfarm, pairing pro gamers with amateurs, raises $6 million Series A

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Time Stamp: May 13, 2021 12:00 PM - Modified On: May 13, 2021 - Published By:
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Legionfarm, the gaming platform that lets gamers play with pro players in their favorite games, has today announced the close of a $6 million Series A round. Investors in the round include SVB, Y Combinator, Scrum VC, Kevin Lin, Altair Capital, Ankur Nagpal and more. Legionfarm launched out of Y Combinator at the beginning of last year with a mission to give pro players a way to generate income and amateur players the chance to get better by playing with a pro coach. It started out with an à la

Sanlo raises $3.5M to help apps and games gain access to financial insights and capital

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Time Stamp: May 12, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 12, 2021 - Published By:
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Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth. To be clear, Sanlo is not an investor that’s taking an equity stake in the apps and games it finances. Instead, it’s offering businesses access

The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4M seed round, and having partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry, plans to ship by the end of the year. As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade’s Yuffie DLC Will Be a Download Code in Boxed Copies

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Time Stamp: May 10, 2021 1:57 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Well, that’s rather unfortunate. If you’re looking to pick up a physical copy of the upcoming Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, you should be aware that the game’s Episode INTERmission DLC, which features fan-favorite materia-hunting ninja Yuffie, will come as a download code, not on the physical disc. That’s according to Australian retailer EB Games, which states that “The new episode, featuring Yuffie, will be a code supplied in the box,” on their website. Obviously, that means that used copies of the game won’t have the DLC if the previous

PortalOne raises $15M from Atari and more for a new hybrid gaming/TV show app

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Time Stamp: April 29, 2021 2:06 PM - Modified On: April 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta. PortalOne, a hybrid gaming startup, is announcing a $15 million seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta with an app that lets people play on-demand games and also watch live shows in which

Five key storylines of DreamHack Masters Spring

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Time Stamp: April 28, 2021 7:37 PM - Modified On: April 28, 2021 - Published By:
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DreamHack Masters Spring is just around the corner, kicking off on Thursday, April 29, with the group stage. Sixteen teams are ready to start their campaign in the stacked tournament, which features 11 out of the world's top 12 sides and promises to bring two extended weekends full of action and plenty of storylines following a string of massive moves at the top of the ladder. DreamHack Masters Spring will kick off on Thursday Astralis are set to make their debut without Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz at the event after they

holoride raises €10 million in Series A funding for its automotive XR solution, plans for market launch in summer 2022

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Time Stamp: April 22, 2021 3:58 PM - Modified On: April 22, 2021 - Published By:
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[embedded content][embedded content]In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News April 22, 2021 – holoride, a provider of technology that combines navigational and car data with XR, has today announced that it has completed its Series A investing round, raising EUR €10 million in first closing and earning the company a EUR €30 million valuation. The round was led by Terranet AB, developers of advanced driver-assistance software (ADAS) that specifically addresses safety and comfort through sensor technology. Other co-investors in the round included a group of Chinese financial and automotive technology

Opinion: How Esports Can Harness the Raw Potential of Speedrunning

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Time Stamp: April 20, 2021 12:00 PM - Modified On: April 20, 2021 - Published By:
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There’s a universal moment many gamers have experienced. You’re the best in your little friend group at Super Smash Bros. Beating your buddies at the game isn’t even a challenge. You’re confident in having figured out the game well enough to challenge anyone. Then you play someone who actually understands spacing, grabs, punishes when you dash attack their shield, and you get utterly obliterated. Turns out you and your friends were playing checkers in the sandbox while these other nerds were playing 4D chess in space. Watching a speedrun of

ORDER Raises $4.12M Investment, Appoints Marc Edwards as CEO 

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Australian esports organization ORDER announced that it has closed a $.5.3M AUD ($4.12M USD) financing round, which it launched early in 2021. The group of investors included CPS Capital managing director Jason Peterson and Gemelli Group chairman Harry Karelis, who has also been appointed to ORDER’s board of directors. The organization’s chairman Gerard Murphy revealed that ORDER intends to use the investment proceeds “to diversify our operations into the content and lifestyle space, while continuing to attract the best operational talent to support our aggressive growth strategy.”   Furthermore, ORDER recruited