HitBox Games, maker of Swords of Blood, has raised a seed round.
HitBox Games, maker of Swords of Blood, has raised a seed round.
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HitBox Games raises $1.6M for hack’n’slash Web3 game Swords of Blood

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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HitBox Games has raised $1.6 million in venture funding for its Web3 hack’n’slash role-playing game Swords of Blood.

The company said that Swords of Blood aims to be an acccessible Web3 product, with a high-quality gaming experience and storyline, to tap into the market for mainstream gamers while offering secure player ownership of in-game items.

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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.