Two Worlds publisher obtains $12.9m in funding

15 Comments by Jason Dobson Jun 21st 2008 10:30PM
Filed under: Business

SouthPeak Games, publisher of Two Worlds as well as the uber-cute DS title Ninjatown, has secured an impressive $12.9 million in private funding. As reported by VC blog VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi, the financing is particularly interesting given that most investments of this sort are directed at the online games, virtual worlds or social networks, rather than the more traditional console and PC game space that SouthPeak calls home.

The company will have no shortage of projects on which to blow its newfound cash, with a number of other titles on deck including XBLA puzzler Roogoo, Monster Madness: Grave Danger for the PS3, and The Temptation, which is totally not-an-expansion to Two Worlds. With multiple sequels planned, Takahashi also notes that the pub sees last year's Xbox 360 and PC RPG as its biggest success to date, though it's a sentiment obviously measured in something other than review scores.

Tags: monster-madness, monstermadness, ninjatown, roogoo, southpeak, two-worlds, twoworlds

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giantenemycrab: Jun 21st 2008; 10:58PM

well there's 12.9m down the drain.

zuburi: Jun 21st 2008; 11:06PM

Awesome!

If the creative geniuses behind Two Worlds can get $12.9m in funding, this pretty much means I can take a dump on a spindle of DVDs and somebody will fund me!

Donald: Jun 21st 2008; 11:29PM

I'll give you a 10 cents, a half-eaten candy bar (Crunch bar if you were wondering), and a movie ticket to The Strangers from 2 weeks ago.

bigsofty: Jun 22nd 2008; 8:53AM

I agree with all the creative indie developers about, why pump more money into this dog?

kataztrophy: Jun 21st 2008; 11:23PM

Hope nobody gives Atari $12.9 million.

Lord Bowser: Jun 22nd 2008; 6:16AM

....

b33eazy: Jun 21st 2008; 11:47PM

What a waste in money......instead of feeding starving kids they're feeding their money into a 2/10 game, at best, that nobody wants.

Bran: Jun 21st 2008; 11:48PM

dot dot dot

kavendano14: Jun 22nd 2008; 1:15AM

And what are you doing for those starving kids?

Exactly.

NATO_Duke: Jun 23rd 2008; 10:13AM

I can't believe you pulled a "Wont somebody think of the children!!" comment here.

Anyway, 2 words was a 5/10 game at metacritic, and really wasn't as bad as people said. It had issues, but the reason it was reviewed so low was because it came on the tail of Oblivion, which was a much better game in every way.

VOS: Jun 22nd 2008; 2:00AM

Give this company a chance. They fucked up on Two Worlds but stated they made a mistake and will do better on the next one. Its not like you guy ever screwed something up and someone gave you a second chance you one sided retards.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/04/22/two-worlds-devs-admit-to-and-learn-from-faults/

VOS: Jun 22nd 2008; 2:03AM

Give this company a chance. They f**ked up on Two Worlds but stated they made a mistake and will do better on the next one. Its not like you guy ever screwed something up and someone gave you a second chance you one sided retards.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/04/22/two-worlds-devs-admit-to-and-learn-from-faults/

juju187: Jun 22nd 2008; 9:09AM

wow....
two worlds online

Alex: Jun 22nd 2008; 11:18AM

Let's face it, they need it. Two Worlds was poop in every way from the voice acting to the combat. Why not give $12.9m to Bethesda? I mean, Oblivion is clearly a better game.

honkyjesusownsu: Jun 23rd 2008; 3:30AM

Two Worlds is quite possibly the worst game I have played since the 1980's. On message boards you can tell the people who bought and are trying to justify their purchase of a bad game and are like "Oh, you have to play a few hours in then it gets cool."

No, you play a few hours in and that is a few more hours you played a craptastic game.

TERRIBLE game.

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