Gameforge chief founds publisher for blockchain games

The newly founded game publisher Eleet Games has closed its first round of financing. Gameforge CEO Carsten van Husen wants the start.up to focus on blockchain games.

Berlin-based gaming startup Eleet has raised money for the first time. Gameforge founder and majority owner Alexander Rösner and venture capitalists from Blockchain Founders Group and Blockrocket are investing. Blockchain Founders and Blockrocket are also among the investors. Wolfang Männel, Managing Director of Blockchain Founders Group is convinced by the idea of Eleet Games: "Eleet Games' vision to position itself as a decentralized publisher of games is something we as early stage blockchain investors from the heart of Europe are very happy to support, as it is exactly what the crypto markets need now."

The company was founded by former Gameforge CEO Casten van Husen in Karlsruhe, Germany. The 20-person team also includes co-founder and COO Peter Stein and Sir Ian Livingstone as creative director. Among the first projects is the fantasy role-playing game Oathbound. "I've known Carsten for more than 20 years and when Peter introduced me to the early alpha version of their first MMORPG Oathbound in the fall of 2021, it became clear to me that Eleet Games had a real opportunity to bring the worlds of gaming and blockchain closer together," said Sir Ian Livingstone, who became known as a gamer himself.