Splitgate Developer Raises $100 Million In Funding, Will Remain Independent

We have a tendency to not make a behavior of protecting each time a online game firm declares some new funding or new inflow of money from one supply or one other. However Splitgate developer 1047 Video games has made a behavior of wow-ing us with some jaw-dropping numbers over the previous few months, making it laborious to look away. First, it acquired $6.5 million in May, adopted by another $10 million in July — however these each pale compared to the sum that was introduced in the present day.

We have now simply raised $100 MILLION to proceed our journey as an impartial, community-first sport studio.

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— Splitgate – Season 0 (@Splitgate) September 14, 2021

As CEO Ian Proulx mentioned in his expanded assertion, the extra $100 million means “EVERYTHING is now on the desk, and the scope of what we will obtain simply acquired 10x larger.” That features extra frequent and larger updates, extra options, sooner bug fixes, extra platforms, and — crucially — the power to deal with extra gamers, which has been a nightmare for Splitgate in its early days.

The “impartial” a part of Proulx’s announcement can also be important; he re-iterated that 1047 will stay impartial because it focuses on “rising to develop into the following large AAA studio, whereas staying true to our roots.” Admittedly, anybody investing $100 million in an organization will in all probability have some say in how issues are completed, however formally, not less than, 1047 Video games remains to be calling its personal pictures and might proceed to make use of the “indie” label. That is greater than we will say for Digital Extremes.

Jason Winter, Information Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a variety of expertise to MMOBomb, together with two years with Beckett Media the place he served because the editor of the main gaming journal Huge On-line Gamer. He has additionally written professionally for a number of gaming web sites.