Article: Riot Games Raises $8 Million in Financing Led by Tencent Holdings, Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital.(Company overview)

Riot Games, a leading independent developer and publisher of premium online games, has closed a round of financing with the top venture capital firms, Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital, and the Chinese online services company Tencent. Tencent is the leading provider of internet value-added services with more than 400 million users and the largest digital goods company in China, which operates a fast growing online games business. The investment of these strategic players signals Riot's leadership position as an emerging leader of next generation games based on a digital goods economic model.

Although still nascent in western markets, Riot's session-based, ...

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