Meteor Entertainment, parent company of Hawken developer Adhesive Games, has raised $10 million from investors to help get the game to market.
Hawken, a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter, is being developed by a team of just 23 people and will be released for PC on December 12. VentureBeat reports that investors include Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital - both of whom were early backers of Riot Games' League Of Legends, which now boasts around five million daily active users.
Benchmark's Mitch Lasky said: "We were tremendously thankful to be associated with Riot, but we viewed the market as much larger than a single title. 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."
Adhesive is currently accepting signups for a closed beta test; click here for more.
Source: VentureBeat