Eve: Valkyrie creator CCP Games raises $30M for virtual reality games

Virtual reality pioneer CCP Games has raised $30 million to continue with VR game development. The funding shows the level of excitement, even for old game companies like CCP (the maker of Eve Online, one of the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing games in the world), in augmented and virtual reality, which tech adviser Digi-Capital expects to be a $150 billion industry by 2020.

The Reykjavik, Iceland-based game publisher has been developing two VR games, Eve: Valkyrie and Gunjack, for upcoming VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift, which debuts next year from Facebook’s Oculus VR division.

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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.