Benchmark Capital put $8 million to work with Swedish game site Power Challenge, the company will announce today. Power Challenge is a rich Internet application – a game that runs in java and plays very much like a video game. Users build and customize their teams and play against others for points and status. The quality of game play is high and is designed to push the boundaries between traditional PC gaming and online gaming.
Power Challenge, along with its sister site Manager Zone (acquired earlier this year), says it is adding 4,000 new players daily. They’ll use the cash from the financing to fund the development of new games titles, which are currently limited to soccer and hockey. The games are currently playable only on Windows PCs.
The company was founded in 2004.
Wow – this makes me wish I was into sports games! Now give me a free FPS shooter like this to play on demand and you have a winner.
Wouldnt run properly on
1.6ghz
1 gig ram (512 Free, after loading)
80 gig hd
– Sad …
Actually the game is written in Java and runs just fine on my MacBook Pro.
This is great example of why applets or java on the client won’t die anytime soon. Its the only client side tech that can perform hardware accelerated 3d interfaces/games cross browser/cross platform. Flash can do software only 3d, so the graphics can be only so good.