Web3 sport writer Fenix Video games raised $150 million in funding to accumulate, make investments and distribute blockchain video games. The fund shall be used to create a sport publishing firm particularly for mainstreaming blockchain video games.
Fenix Video games’ newest funding spherical noticed participation from buyers, together with Phoenix Group and Dubai-based enterprise capital agency Cypher Capital, reported native information media Jinse. Chris Ko, CEO and co-founder of Fenix Video games, who beforehand led Legendary Video games, considers Fenix Video games “like a VC fund” for fueling the following technology of blockchain video games.
Sharing particulars into the post-funding gameplan, Ko said:
“We’re really going to start out off with an enormous base of capital to spend money on these (next-generation gaming) studios. We’re additionally wanting to make use of our steadiness sheet to accumulate a bunch of current video games within the Web2 area to construct a portfolio.”
Ko additionally highlighted that the marketplace for blockchain gaming doesn’t exist because it did for conventional video video games akin to gaming consoles and cellular gaming. Fenix Video games’ technique going ahead is to develop the gaming ecosystem by way of publishing initiatives.
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