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With $20M in backing, Motiga unveils Gigantic free-to-play action game (exclusive)

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Motiga, an indie game studio, is announcing today that it has raised $20 million to build a free-to-play gaming empire. Its first major project is Gigantic, an action game where heroes battle alongside a massive guardian.

The ambitious title and large amount of funding show that the stakes are getting bigger in free-to-play gaming, which has become a multibillion-dollar market thanks to titles like Riot Games’ multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends. Bellevue, Wash.-based Motiga hopes to fit into this universe with a genre-bending game that combines action and strategy in a fantasy world. The company plans to launch the title in 2015 on the PC.

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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.