Playfish pulls in $3M seed for social gaming
Another social, casual gaming startup has brought in an initial investment for development, with several games lined up for release this year.
Playfish, which is based in London, already has a game called Who Has The Biggest Brain? on Facebook. It plans on monetizing through micro-transactions according to VentureWire, which also reported the funding.
The $3 million seed round was provided by a group of angel investors.
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Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.