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Nifty Games Raises $12M Series A
San Francisco – April 15, 2020 – Nifty Games Inc., a developer and publisher focused on quick-session, head-to-head sports games for mobile devices, has secured more than $12 million in Series A financing, with $15 million raised to date. The company has also announced NFL Clash, a mobile-first football game that will launch later this year, revealing the company’s licenses with the National Football League (NFL) and National Football League Players Association (NFLPA).
NFL General Manager Joins Nifty Games
San Francisco, CA – April 2nd, 2020, – Nifty Games Inc. a developer and publisher focused on quick-session, head-to-head sports games for mobile announced today the appointment of industry veteran William Schmitt, who will be joining as General Manager effective immediately for a yet to be announced officially licensed sports product. This news follows Nifty’s recent announcement that it has teamed up with the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), and THINK450
Pocket Gamer Fireside Chat
In this fireside chat from the UA Universe track at Pocket Gamer Connects London on January 20 2020, Alex Verrey (Big Boy Barry) joins Jon Middleton from Nifty Games on stage to discuss how to stand out as a new Mobile games publisher. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nIoHlf6ENng
GameDaily.biz interview with Pete and Jon
Chief Product Office Pete Wanat and CEO Jon Middleton sat down with GameDaily.biz to give some more insight into how we are approaching the sports genre, and working closely with the NBA and NBPA to deliver a new experience in free-to-play mobile gaming. https://gamedaily.biz/article/1577/mobile-startup-nifty-games-looks-to-carve-out-a-piece-of-the-sports-pie-secures-nba-deal
Nifty Games Teams Up With The NBA and NBPA
San Francisco – Feb. 18, 2020 – Nifty Games, a mobile-first developer and publisher of quick-session, head-to-head sports games, has teamed up with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) to bring an authentic NBA basketball game to mobile devices. Under the agreements with the NBA and the NBPA, Nifty Games will create a mobile game including the NBA stars, teams, and venues that fans expect. The NBA-themed
Nifty Games 2019 Key Hires Announcement
We were very pleased to announce our great new additions for 2019 as we round out our management and leadership team, and build momentum into 2020. Click here to see the full transcript from our friends at Gamasutra.com, from December 18, 2019.
2019 Seattle PG Connects Panel (Pete and Jon)
Pete and Jon sat down this past week at Pocket Gamer Connects in Seattle, to chat about our approach to creating sports games, and where we expect our products to fit into the genre mix of mobile gaming.
CEO talks Industry Opportunities and Trends
Nifty’s CEO Jon Middleton was recently a guest speaker for Pocketgamer.biz, click here to read the full interview from January 17th, 2019
Sports Mobile startup – $3 million investment
Nifty Games was featured on Yahoo Finance on November 28th, 2018, with coverage of our seed round financing announcement.
Nifty Games receives $3M in Seed Round
The first press release for Nifty Games. As a brand-new video game publisher, we announced our initial capital raise on November 27, 2018.