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Finnish Studio Will Launch ‘Top Gear Road Trip’ This Summer. Partnered With BBC Worldwide.

Press release:
Helsinki, Finland, May 24th, 2017 – Helsinki based mobile game developer Motorious Entertainment, today announced that it has closed a further €800,000 investment round of funding. The joint investment from Finnvera Venture Capital and Nordea’s Startup and Growth Services and the remaining fund from backers from the first round of investment, brings the total investment to €1,300,000. Motorious Entertainment is currently gearing up to launch its debut mobile release ‘Top Gear Road Trip’, based on the popular world famous Top Gear IP. With over 400 million Top Gear fans around the globe, ‘Top Gear Road Trip’ will launch on the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android devices this summer.

“After a number of years as Editor in Chief of Finnish Top Gear, it has been an exciting ride to extract the DNA of driving’s number one television franchise, and build it into a mobile game”, said Jari Pauna, CEO and Creative Director of Motorious Entertainment. “We are excited to have Finnvera Venture Capital, Nordea’s Startup and Growth Services in the driving seat, to help grow our team and look forward to launching Top Gear Road Trip, in partnership with BBC Worldwide this summer.”

“In cooperation with Finnvera, we’re pleased to provide the funds to continue the rapid growth of Motorious studio infrastructure and headcount”, said Kenneth Koivula, Investment Manager from Nordea’s Startup and Growth Services.

“Finnvera is excited to back Motorious in advance of the launch of Top Gear Road Trip”, said Jani Tuominen, Finance Manager from Finnvera plc. “We’ve been impressed with how the studio has developed this iconic television brand, to a new mobile games franchise that we believe will become a worldwide phenomenon”.

Top Gear Road Trip is a unique casual free to play mobile title that presents some of the most legendary and beloved challenges from the Top Gear TV show. The game’s casual but action packed match-three control mechanics, with mid core gameplay enable players to progress on a map from England to France, through the Alps, Italy and onwards on a road trip saga. Strategy, planning and car tuning are essential to win the puzzle races and reach various Top Gear challenge levels. Top Gear Road Trip challenges are unique action levels where players can try to beat their own records and build their car collection to compete against friends, enemies and frenemies alike.

About Motorious Entertainment
Motorious Entertainment Ltd. is a Finnish games developer and publisher, founded in 2015 by games, media and entertainment veterans Jari Pauna and Timo Poijärvi. Motorious Entertainment is focusing on fun and addictive games for mobile devices. The Motorious team team has a rich pedigree in mobile, console and PC game development with a number of launched titles on their roster, including the FlatOut series, Sega Rally, Ridge Racer Unbounded and Brawl Bolts.
http://www.motorious.fi

Nordea Startup & Growth Services
We build strong and close relationships through our engagement with customers and society. Whenever people strive to reach their goals and realise their dreams, we are there to provide relevant financial solutions. We are the largest bank in the Nordic region and among the ten largest financial groups in Europe in terms of total market capitalisation with around 11 million customers, 31,500 employees and 600 branch office locations. The Nordea share is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Helsinki and Nasdaq Copenhagen exchanges. Read more about us on nordea.com.

About Finnvera
Finnvera provides financing for the start, growth and internationalization of enterprises and guarantees against risks arising from exports. Finnvera strengthens the operating potential and competitiveness of Finnish enterprises by offering loans, domestic guarantees, export credit guarantees and other services associated with the financing of exports. The risks included in financing are shared between Finnvera and other providers of financing. Finnvera is a specialized financing company owned by the State of Finland and it is the official Export Credit Agency (ECA) of Finland.
www.finnvera.fi

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround