Posts tagged benchmark-capital

Journey dev goes fully independent, self-publishing next game

by Ben Gilbert (Jun 14th 2012 1:55PM)

Having completed its three-game contractual stint with Sony Computer Entertainment America, the team behind Flow, Flower, and Journey is breaking free with a $5.5 million infusion of capital from Benchmark Capital's Mitch Lasky. "Today I am pleased to announce thatgamecompany has raised funding to ...

Hawken developers raise $10 million in capital to launch

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th 2012 9:30PM)

Tim Schafer's Double Fine Entertainment has made a lot of noise by getting fans to pay over $2.6 million for them to put together an old school adventure game, but here's a reminder that there are still some reasons to do things the old way. About 7.4 million reasons, in fact: Publisher Meteor ...

Gaikai up to $15 million in capital with second round of funding

by Ben Gilbert (May 24th 2010 10:00PM)

Tired of what we silly game journalists have to say about the upcoming Gaikai game streaming service and thirsting for comments from the venture's latest investment partners? We were too! Thankfully this morning's announcement that several investment groups will be adding another $10 million to the ...