Makers online shooter Hawken, pick up $ 10 million

Meteor Entertainment, the owner of developer Adhesive Games, has a 10 million dollar collected from investment firms to the end of this year, the free playable online mech game, Hawken, on the market.

Investment firms Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital cross $ 10 million in the development of Hawken. The money is intended for Meteor Entertainment, owner of developer Adhesive Games. The studio works with a small team to the game, which at the end of this year on the market would have to come out. Hawken is free to play. It is a shooter in which players each other dressed in a huge armed robotpak online combat. The game is aimed at the so-called hardcore gamer.

The two investment companies cease earlier money in Riot Games, the development of the also free playable League of Legends. That gave the investors a hefty profit on, because after the introduction of the game was Riot Games for $ 350 million bought.

With the investment of the two companies gets Meteor, significantly more than the colleagues at Double Fine. That came earlier this month in the news because the money collected via crowdfunding. The studio wants to under the guidance of veterans like Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, a new adventuregame. Double Fine hoped to 400,000 dollars. The counter is turned substantially on and is now on more than 2.4 million dollars.


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