Kards is a WWII card game.
Kards is a WWII card game.
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1939 Games raises $3.6 million for WWII digital card game Kards

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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1939 Games, an indie game studio in Iceland, announced it has raised $3.6 million to deliver it’s cross-platform digital collectible card title Kards to gamers on PC and mobile in 2019. Kards is set in World War II.

The funding comes from a collection of private and public sources including government grants and international investors Tencent, Sisu Game Ventures, and Crowberry Capital.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.