Mainframe Industries raises $8.3 million for cloud-native games

Mainframe Industries has raised $8.3 million to develop cloud-native games in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with additional investment from Riot Games.The Finnish-Icelandic gaming studio founded by former CCP, Remedy Entertainment, and Next Games veterans is developing an unannounced cloud-native massively multiplayer online game that is designed and built at Mainframe’s Helsinki and Reykjavik studios.“We are starting from the ground up with no legacy to constrain us, across mobile, PC or console,” said Thor Gunnarsson, the CEO of Mainframe Industries, in an interview with GamesBeat. “All platforms are equally strong.”