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Jason Avent’s newly launched recreation studio Hardball Video games has raised £4.3 million ($5.2 million) in a seed funding spherical.
Avent’s profession expertise features a six-year stint as a non-executive director at FuturLab.
He additionally served as studio head at TT Video games; Avent was with the corporate for 4 years.
The funding spherical was led by Griffin Gaming Companions. Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby, founders of cellular video games agency Playdemic additionally participated within the spherical.
“With Paul and Alex, we get to work with business entrepreneurs who’ve constructed a billion-dollar, free-to-play video games enterprise in partnership with Griffin, who’ve acknowledged the significance of our confirmed credentials and the chance to seize an enormous cross-platform viewers with model new methods to play collectively,” mentioned Avent.
Hardball Video games mentioned that with the funding it intends to speed up the event of its multiplayer IP.
