Mainframe Industries secures $23 million in “cloud-native MMO” funding

If you had a few million skeletons lying around, would you use it to fund an MMORPG? You know, like this guy did?

Okay, so none of the organizations participating in the latest round of funding for a new “cloud-native MMO” from Mainframe Industries are your average participants, but they still have money to burn. Funding is led by Andreessen Horowitz and includes Twitch co-founder and former COO Kevin Lin, King co-founder and former executive Riccardo Zacconi, Huuuge Games founder and CEO Anton Gauffin, director CCP Games executive Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and former Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven. They join previous investors Riot Games, Play Ventures and Sisu Game Ventures in contributing 20.3 million euros, or about $23 million, to Mainframe, which has offices in Helsinki and Paris..

And what exactly is a “cloud-native MMO”? Mainframe CEO and co-founder Thor Gunnarsson said it’s “a persistent living world that people will call home for years and hopefully decades.” NS Mainframe industries The site calls it “an enduring social world that reflects the best strands in our collective DNA as game developers, creating a fresh take on the story genre with a game play that our players will call home, whether they choose to access our world from their PC, console, or phone.” Dear.

The first funding round in March added 7.6 million euros, or $8.6 million, to Mainframe’s coffers, so the company now has more than $30 million to work with. That’s enough to produce…something…but we probably won’t hear about it for quite some time. In the meantime, let your imagination run wild!