Nifty Games is a new publisher focused on sports games

Do you feel sports video games have been lacking in innovation and new approaches in recent years? Hoping for a newcomer to come in and mix things up? Maybe, Nifty Games is the answer. Set up by industry veterans including serial entrepreneur Jon Middleton and longtime producer Pete Wanat (we remember him from the Chronicles of Riddick titles when he was at Universal).

"We've built Nifty Games to create innovative sports games for today's sports fans," said Middleton via press release. "The talent and experience on the team is second to none, and we believe our unique product direction and focus on quality will deliver a step change in mobile gaming to sports fans worldwide. It's a great vote of confidence to have the support of such highly regarded investors in our initial equity financing. With investment from team owners from all five major North American pro sports leagues, as well as successful game industry leaders and institutional tech investors, we're off to a great start."

The company has secured seed funding worth $3 million (USD) from the likes of aXiomatic Gaming, March Capital Partners, and Defy.VC. The mission statement is to "produce the best head to head quick play sports games" on mobile and digital platforms.

Remains to be seen what sorts of titles we'll see from Nifty Games in the future.