Emergent Game Tech gobbles up $14M for game development platform

Emergent Game Technologies, builder of applications for video-game development, has snapped up $14.4 million in equity, amending a filing from February reporting that the company raised more than $12.5 million, according to VentureWire.

Based in Calabasa, Calif., the company says it can slash game development costs… Continue Reading

Vicious Cycle releases new tool to make it easier to do cheaper cross-platform games

Vicious Cycle releases new tool to make it easier to do cheaper cross-platform games

Game engines may not be sexy to talk about, but they are useful tools. They provide developers with a platform upon which they can make multiple games. So it’s no small matter that Vicious Cycle Software is announcing a new version of its game engine,… Continue Reading

Emergent racks up $12.5M for game-development software

Emergent Game Technologies, a Calabasas, Calif.-based provider of applications used to develop video games more cost-efficiently, just raised $12.5 million in fifth-round funding to support the commercialization of a new product, slated to launch during the Game Developers Conference in late March. The company claims… Continue Reading

Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups

Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups

I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth in 1995. Since 3-D games didn’t exist back then, Huang described his graphics chip as the ideal “Windows accelerator.” And if… Continue Reading

Emergent Game Technologies raises $12M more for game applications

Emergent Game Technologies, a Calabasas, Calif. company that makes applications to help with game development, said it has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding.

The round was led by Jerusalem Venture Partners and Worldview Technology Partners, with some help from Adena Ventures,… Continue Reading