Kek Entertainment has raised $eight million in funding to foster cross-platform gaming experiences throughout cell gadgets, consoles and PCs.

This monetary infusion will gas the event of their flagship title, an unannounced automobile shooter sport merging cell and PC/Console players onto a unified platform.

The startup is headed by a group from Pixonics who helped create the Battle Robots mech preventing sport on cell gadgets. Now they’re making one thing model new within the mecha area.

Korea Funding Companions, a South Korean gaming enterprise capital fund, led the spherical. Different traders included Woori Expertise Funding Co., Kona Enterprise Companions, and KEK’s pre-seed traders — The Video games Fund and Play Ventures.

Michael Okay. Lee, director at Korea Funding Companions, in a press release {that a} truthful variety of gamers need extra immersive gameplay and need to play with their associates who’re on different platforms.

“KEK Entertainment’s imaginative and prescient aligns completely with the altering panorama of gaming preferences. Our perception within the potential for a well-designed cross-platform sport to resonate with numerous gaming communities is unwavering. We’re thrilled to assist KEK on this path,” stated Lee.

Origins

Georgy Egorov and Oleg Poroshin, veterans from Pixonics, began the brand new firm a few years in the past. Battle Robots has generated $750 million in revenues and has been downloaded greater than 250 million instances because it got here out in 2014. The most typical request was to get the sport on a number of platforms so associates might play collectively.

“Our concept is to make the last word mecha shooter expertise,” Egorov stated. “If we are able to keep away from all of the errors earlier than and make it informal sufficient for cell gamers and hardcore alike, we are able to preserve the PC gamers entertained and produce within the cell gamers.”

This time, they envision one thing like a mix of Battle Robots and World of Tanks, the place the motion is slow-paced and gamers can give you methods relatively than belief their hand-eye coordination to win video games.

“We’ve expertise within the style and we like mechas,” stated Egorov, in an interview with GamesBeat. “We put effort into what we like, into the place our experience is. We wish to carry this expertise for our core viewers and broaden the enchantment.”

The founders have a ardour for the style and needed to create one thing new, stated Egorov. Now they’re set to leverage their experience in multiplayer PvP motion to transcend the confines of cell gaming and create a platform-agnostic mental property.

“I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied that regardless of the clearly difficult funding local weather, we put collectively the proper setup for our journey! Now, we’ve companions in all main areas for our enterprise: the USA, Asia, and Europe. Nevertheless, crucial factor is that we’ve confidence in every of them, and from day one, we really feel that we share the imaginative and prescient and vibe. In any case, enterprise is about individuals. I imagine that this partnership will probably be an incredible foundation for constructing not solely a profitable sport however a brand new well-known media franchise,” Egorov stated.

The core philosophy of Kek Entertainment facilities on bridging the hole between numerous gaming gadgets to craft a extra related and inclusive gaming area. Poroshin emphasised the importance of slow-paced shooters in enabling a constant and truthful gaming expertise throughout completely different platforms, stressing their strategic method and fascinating gameplay.

“Why slow-paced shooters? They’re straightforward to get into, with controls and tempo that really feel good whether or not you’re taking part in on a high-end PC or tapping in your telephone – the expertise stays constant and truthful,” stated Poroshin, chief product officer. “Gradual-paced shooters demand a strategic method that trumps the short reflexes typically required by their faster-paced counterparts. These video games are deep and fascinating, and so they match into your life, not the opposite approach round.”

Kek stated it had a optimistic reception from its early adopter group for the artwork model and early have a look at the sport. Now it’s engaged on launching a gentle beta launch for gamers on cell gadgets and on Steam. In among the gameplay, gamers have to kill a non-player boss whereas preventing an opposing group. There’ll probably be three completely different factions. The sooner take a look at labored surprisingly properly on a monitor pad.

Beforehand, the corporate acquired a $three million pre-seed funding from The Video games Fund and Play Ventures. It has 35 individuals now throughout a number of international locations. The headquarters is in Limassol, Cyprus and the event group is in Armenia and elsewhere.

As for beginning a brand new firm, Egorov stated it’s generally laborious to implement new concepts in a legacy product. And the artwork model, Egorov stated, “Our viewers thinks real looking pictures are best option for them. They’re critical people who need actual army expertise, with sci fi on the similar time. We don’t need to be bounded by trendy warfare.”