TheCharter Communications-backed PC gaming platform has secured $32.7m and revealed Western Digital invested earlier this year.

Blade, a France-based cloud gaming platform backed by cable and telecommunications provider Charter Communications, secured €30m ($32.7m) in funding on Tuesday.

Technology investment firm Serena Capital’s V13 fund supplied the funding along with private investors Erik Maris, Laurent Deltour, Christophe Karvelis, Philippe Lazare, Lionel Scotto le Massese, Marc Simoncini and Pierre le Tanneur.

Founded in 2015, Blade has created a subscription-based cloud gaming platform called Shadow that transfers the power requirements of a PC to data centres, meaning PC-quality games…

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