{"id":20869,"date":"2018-05-18T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318395"},"modified":"2018-05-18T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:38:00","slug":"gamelynx-raises-1-2-million-to-develop-esports-games-on-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/gamelynx-raises-1-2-million-to-develop-esports-games-on-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamelynx raises $1.2 million to develop esports games on mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamelynx has raised $1.2 million toward its goal of creating team-based competitive games on mobile platforms in an effort to\u00a0make esports\u00a0more\u00a0accessible and global.<\/p>\n<p>Among the company\u2019s main investors are\u00a0Riot Games, Y Combinator,\u00a0Skycatcher Fund, and M Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Other investors include Leaf Ventures, Everblue Esports Ventures, and Lyle Fong, co-founder of mobile games studio Hobo Labs, Lithium, and Gamers.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/05\/18\/gamelynx-raises-1-2-million-to-make-esports-games-on-mobile\/\">by VentureBeat,<\/a> Gamelynx\u00a0hopes to use the accessibility of mobile platforms\u00a0to diversifying the offerings for competitive players, where\u00a0mobile esports\u00a0are currently oversaturated\u00a0by smaller-scale MOBAs\u00a0similar to what already exist on PC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the line between mobile and PC\/console continues to blur, the portability and accessibility of mobile creates an even brighter future for competitive gaming and esports,&#8221; writes Alexander\u00a0Mistakidis, CEO of Gamelynx and former\u00a0developer at Riot Games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The studio is reportedly\u00a0working on\u00a0its first competitive multiplayer game, with launch details\u00a0coming later on this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamelynx has raised $1.2 million toward its goal of creating team-based competitive games on mobile platforms in an effort to\u00a0make esports\u00a0more\u00a0accessible and global. Among the company\u2019s main investors are\u00a0Riot Games, Y Combinator,\u00a0Skycatcher Fund, and M Ventures. Other investors include Leaf Ventures, Everblue Esports Ventures, and Lyle Fong, co-founder of mobile games studio Hobo Labs, Lithium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}