Red Robot enters Asia with $5 million investment from Taiwan’s Next Media

Red Robot Labs is expanding to Asia, announcing today it has inked a deal with Next Media that will see the Taiwanese conglomerate invest $5 million in Red Robot and license the company’s proprietary R2 geo gaming platform. Next Media’s subsidiary, Next Media Animation will be the first third-party developer to license the engine.

Although Next Media Animation isn’t a game developer (the company is best known in the U.S. for its computer animated news spoofs) according to Red Robot’s co-founder and chief executive officer Mike Ouye, the two companies actually share similar goals.

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