Place Ape, hailed as a rival to Indignant Birds maker Rovio, raises additional £4.5m
The London-based mostly cellular game titles studio has elevated follow-on progress capital from Silicon Valley 
Space Ape Video games, the London-primarily based cell games studio, has elevated £4.5m in stick to-on funding from a consortium of traders including Northzone, an early backer in Spotify, the Fb trader Accel Companions, First Capital and Hook up Ventures.
The 3rd round of funding was secured adhering to the global good results of the combat journey sport Samurai Siege, which has produced sales of £13m and far more than 10m downloads considering that its launch last 12 months.
Place Ape, which is hailed as London’s response to Finland’s Offended Birds maker Rovio, will bolster its advertising and marketing capabilities and employ the service of amongst thirty and forty new personnel inside of the subsequent 6 months.
David Gardner OBE, vice-president of the game titles giant Electronic Arts, will sign up for the company in an advisory ability.
“We’ve developed 1 of the ideal teams in the globe to make the highest quality, most commercially profitable cellular online games, and we continue growing,” stated Room Ape’s co-founder and CEO, John Earner. “The newest funding will assist us realise this vision as we speed headlong into our expansion plans for 2015.”
Mr Earner, an ex-PlayStation director, introduced the studio with previous Mind Sweet executive Toby Moore and ex-Digital Arts director Simon Hade in 2012. The organization has raised a total of £7m in development money to date.
Space Ape specialises in developing tough approach games that get customers into a “mature and immersive fantasy planet, with stories of warring dimensions and vengeance”, the firm explained.
It will unveil its next title, Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin, this 7 days. Players of the true-time multiplayer technique game have to defend a magical world in opposition to demons and dragons.
The match will be offered to download early up coming yr. View the trailer below.