Manticore Games, a US-based games platform developer, has raised $15m from a consortium led by peer Epic Games.

Adam Sussman, president at Epic Games, which operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts, and is itself backed by Tencent, said: “The industry is ultimately headed to games becoming more like open platforms where creators can build their own worlds. Built in [Epic’s] Unreal Engine, [Manticore’s] Core [platform] exemplifies this future and goes one step further by…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.