‘ForeVR Bowl’ VR Studio Raises $10M to Expand Catalogue of ‘Wii Sports’ Style Games for Quest - Road to VR

ForeVR Games, the VR workplace down Quest 2 titles specified arsenic ForeVR Bowl (2021) and ForeVR Darts (2021), announced a $10 cardinal Series A backing round, thing it’s utilizing to further the instauration of Wii Sports-style VR games.

The Series A circular was led by Lobby Capital, and features information by existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive.

Completing its first effect round backmost successful December 2020, ForeVR besides attracted investments by Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, and Zynga founders Mark Pincus and Justin Waldron. Its astir caller circular brings ForeVR’s full backing to day to $18.5 million.

Founded by Marcus Segal and Mike Pagano Doom, antecedently of Zynga, the afloat distant workplace present has a headcount of 44 people, representing a 3X endowment acquisition since summertime 2021 and including manufacture veterans from EA and Glu.

The studio’s main absorption is connected creating wide market, accessible games for VR—the benignant of casual titles successful the vein of Nintendo’s palmy Wii Sports (2006). Since its founding successful 2020, the workplace has released 3 titles: ForeVR Bowl, ForeVR Darts, and its astir caller crippled ForeVR Cornhole (2022).

“At Zynga, we proved that 2D societal games similar Words with Friends and Farmville had the powerfulness to physique monolithic audiences by bringing radical unneurotic successful play. Marrying what we learned astatine Zynga with the ocular richness of VR volition let america to instrumentality societal gaming to the adjacent level,” said Marcus Segal, CEO and co-founder of ForeVR Games. “Our caller backing validates our enactment frankincense acold and our imaginativeness for creating a caller ‘Wii Sports of VR’ that brings everyone of ages unneurotic successful hyper-realistic, immersive worlds.”

The workplace hopes to merchandise ForeVR Pool before the extremity of the year, making for its 4th crippled successful its casual gaming lineup.