OpenFeint founder Jason Citron has raised $8.2 million for his second game startup, Hammer & Chisel. The company wants to bring League of Legends style play to tablets with a new multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA) called Fates Forever.
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The funding was led by Benchmark Capital partner Mitch Lasky, who was the No. 1 investor in Riot Games, the maker of MOBA game League of Legends and the pioneer of the wildly popular MOBA genre, where players compete on teams by pushing different lanes to reach and destroy the enemy’s base. Lasky, who invested in Riot Games, has joined Hammer & Chisel’s board. Other investors include Studio 9+, Accel Partners, IDG Capital Partners, GC Capital Partners, Time Warner, and numerous angels. Peter Relan, the head of the incubator 9+, has also joined Hammer & Chisel’s board.
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