{"id":1271,"date":"2020-02-21T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2020-02-27T19:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:43:20","slug":"tempo-storm-esports-team-raises-3-3-million-to-expand-into-blockchain-game-development-and-livestreamed-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/tempo-storm-esports-team-raises-3-3-million-to-expand-into-blockchain-game-development-and-livestreamed-entertainment","title":{"rendered":"Tempo Storm Esports team raises $3.3 million to expand into blockchain game development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tempo Storm believes it has potential to expand beyond being a traditional esports team, and has found some deep-pocketed backers who agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization today announced that it has raised $3.3 million in funding &#8220;to push further into interactive, immersive media, as well as game design, transforming Tempo Storm into something unlike anything else in esports-or in video games as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding was led by Galaxy Interactive through its Galaxy EOS Fund, which invests in projects using the EOS.IO blockchain protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;While Tempo is well-known in the competitive gaming world, we&#8217;ve always operated more as a media company than a sports team. &#8220;We believe that interactivity is the future of entertainment, and we&#8217;re incredibly grateful to be working with investors who share that vision. Our upcoming game and audience-driven shows are blazing the trail in the world of interactive media, and it&#8217;s exciting to see that future being realized.&#8221; <\/p><cite>  Andrey Yanyuk, Tempo Storm founder and CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Tempo Storm&#8217;s first game, The Bazaar, will be a deck-building card game. The organization is also working on Game Changers, a livestreamed travel show where viewers influence what happens on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tempo Storm believes it has potential to expand beyond being a traditional esports team, and has found some deep-pocketed backers who agree. The organization today announced that it has raised $3.3 million in funding &#8220;to push further into interactive, immersive media, as well as game design, transforming Tempo Storm into something unlike anything else in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}