It seems to be like Marvel Snap is safe after its developer, Second Dinner, secured a $100 million funding.
In November, Second Dinner was compelled to reassure involved gamers of the well-received on-line card sport after its writer bumped into hassle.
Stories indicated TikTok maker ByteDance deliberate to wind down its Nuverse gaming model and retreat from mainstream video video games, and was in search of methods to dump launched titles. That included Marvel Snap, Second Dinner’s Marvel-themed Hearthstone-a-like that launched in 2022. Nuverse revealed Marvel Snap throughout cellular and PC.
However now, Second Dinner has secured $100 million in a Sequence B funding spherical led by Griffin Gaming Companions, which suggests the developer will proceed to function independently, and use the money to develop new video games.
“We need to make sensible, focused bets that leverage our strengths and provides us house to construct recent, modern video games that we love and that we need to share with tens of millions of gamers,” Second Dinner’s CCO Matt Wyble instructed GamesBeat.
Nick Tuosto, co-founder and managing director of Griffin Gaming Companions, added: “Second Dinner has assembled one of many strongest artistic groups that now we have ever come throughout. Marvel Snap provides to the administration workforce’s unimaginable monitor report of making hit titles.
“We’re thrilled to associate with Second Dinner to develop Marvel Snap and sit up for new titles developed by this ridiculously proficient workforce.”
In accordance with GI.biz, Marvel Snap has seen $50 million in participant spending because it launched in October, with 18 million participant downloads. Writer Nuverse was solely arrange in 2019, and was seen as a part of ByteDance’s big-budget bid to get in on the online game market. Final yr, Reuters reported Nuverse hadn’t carried out effectively sufficient, and that Marvel Snap had “amassed a cult following however was not a industrial hit.”
Second Dinner was co-founded by former Hearthstone director Ben Brode and fellow Blizzard veteran Hamilton Chu again in 2019. As for ByteDance, Reuters stories it is in talks with “a number of potential patrons” of its gaming belongings, together with Tencent.
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