Jason Citron’s Phoenix Guild nets $1.1M in funding to create “exploitation-free” games for core gamers

Jason Citron has taken the wraps off his new game development studio Phoenix Guild, announcing today the company has raised $1.1 million in funding from Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners and former OpenFeint incubator YouWeb.

Citron is a long-time player in the mobile gaming industry, co-founding game studio turned mobile-social network OpenFeint, which he sold to GREE for $104 million last spring. Although Citron originally stayed with GREE as the chief executive of OpenFeint, he stepped

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