Rocket Ninja Closes $7.5M Second Round for New Hires

Rocket Ninja, current developer of Facebook game Wrestler: Unstoppable, has secured a $7.5 million second round of funding from European private investor Marcel Boekhoorn. This brings the developer’s total funding to $11 million.

Wrestler: Unstoppable started as a complex 2D fighting game for Facebook developed by SteamStreet. Rocket Ninja purchased the game last year and essentially relaunched it earlier in 2011 as a 3D fighting game that runs on its proprietary Shr3d game engine. The developer claimed it saw stronger retention with the dramatic change.

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