Article: Mech Combat Game, Hawken, Receives $10 Million in Funding

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Re: Article: Mech Combat Game, Hawken, Receives $10 Million in Funding

Yep I'm interested too. I hope their F2P concept will be close to League of Legends (mostly sell skins and others thigns with no impact on gameplay).

This game is free? FREE?!? God damn.. DECEMBER, GET YOUR ASS HERE NOW.

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Totally dig it.

[Shawn Zipay]

Thanks to the efforts of Meteor Entertainment, $10 million was raised to help fund the upcoming downloadable mech combat game, Hawken.

The major investors, at least according to VentureBeat, were Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. These two are the same investors that helped out Riot Games with the development of League of Legends.

"We were tremendously thankful to be associated with Riot, but we viewed the market as much bigger than a single title," said Benchmark partner Mitch Lasky. "We think that $8 billion to $10 billion will migrate away from packaged goods games and free-to-play will be a lightning rod for those dollars."

Hawken has certainly not gone ignored by the gaming community. Over 200,000 have already joined in on the closed beta with hundreds of thousands, if not millions more being interested. Hawken is slated to be released this December.