Game developer HitPoint Studios moving to Springfield after local investors - masslive.com -Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council

Game developer HitPoint Studios moving to Springfield after local investors

masslive.com Dec 9 2014 Creative Economy , Entrepreneurship

HitPoint Studios will move its offices from Amherst to Springfield after a group of local investors committed $1.25 million to the company in an effort to keep it in Western Massachusetts. The mobile and video game developer received competing offers from the Silicon Valley and Boston areas, contingent upon moving there. In a statement, River Valley Investors Chairman John Goodhue said HitPoint is "exciting" and now it "will grow right here."
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