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Starship Troopers: Extermination debuts on console and PC
Get ready for some overly enthusiastic campy dialogue.
Incoming message from the United Citizen Federation! Offworld—in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, and Knights Peak— has launched Starship Troopers: Extermination.
Coming out of early access, the game is now live on Steam and Epic Games Store on the PC and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles. It will be interesting to see how this game does alongside the similar Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2, which was a hit in the late summer.
In addition to its trademark explosive co-op multiplayer action, the 1.0 and console editions of Starship Troopers: Extermination are loaded with brand-new features, including the mighty Tanker Bug enemy directly inspired by the 1997 film, the new ice planet Boreas, and a solo play tutorial mode featuring none other than General Rico himself, Casper Van Dien.
It’s time to join the Deep Space Vanguard, grab your rifle, and do your part. The price is $50.
Starship Troopers: Extermination combines squad-based gunplay with base-building and resource extraction against swarms of diverse arachnid foes. Choose from six distinct classes and work together to complete objectives, acquire resources, build and defend your base, and extract critical materials in intense battles.
The game features new solo play tutorial mode. Johnny Rico Reprised by Casper Van Dien – Chapter One of an new story featuring General Rico of the 1997 movie will introduce players to the different gameplay aspects of Starship Troopers: Extermination.
Chapter Two will follow in post-launch updates. There’s a new planet, Boreas, which was a toxic, frozen wasteland before it was hit with a Bug Meteor, allowing the Arachnids to evolve in this extreme environment.
You can join the first landing parties sent to explore its surface and destroy the frigid Arachnids. There’s a new enemy in the former of the Tanker Bug – 1.0 finally introduces the iconic movie bug.
These giant Bugs serve as armored assault units in the Arachnid army and are capable of swiftly decimating whole platoons of Mobile Infantry. When the Tanker emerges, it will require the whole team’s attention to take it out. It can be encountered in company operation missions.
The Galactic Front provides new missions to company members, connecting individual players to the broader Starship Troopers community. Victory Points earned by the entire community contribute towards different outcomes, affecting “Spoils of War” rewards and influencing the ongoing story of the Starship Troopers: Extermination universe.
Players can now build their own company of dedicated troopers, just like Johnny Rico and his Roughnecks. Within each company, players work together to achieve goals on the Galactic Front via special company operations.
“From day one, we’ve been chasing the target of creating the ‘authentic troopers experience,’” said Gareth Woods, head of marketing at Offworld, in a statement. “We poured over the source material to find the essence of what it means to be a Trooper in the Deep Space Vanguard and did our best to bring that to life.”
“It’s been an epic journey through Early Access, and our squad has been nothing short of extraordinary. I’m so proud of what our team has been able to achieve on systems like Carnage, which is brand-new tech we weren’t even sure was possible,” said Peter Maurice, project lead at Offworld, in a statement. “Seeing those bodies pile up and change the environment without performance being impacted is something to behold. But we aren’t getting too comfortable—this is just the beginning! We’re charging full speed ahead into the future, and we can’t wait to share what’s next for Starship Troopers: Extermination.”
Originating from humble roots within the modding community, Offworld is now a game studio responsible for the ongoing development of Starship Troopers: Extermination, the hit FPS shooter Squad, and the WW2 shooter Squad 44.
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Japan’s startup sector, despite being one of the biggest in the world, has lagged behind other regions like the U.S., China, and the U.K., in terms of the number of unicorns and the scale of venture capital investment. For years, an aging population, overall economic deflation, and salarymen’s inclination to work at traditional, big corporations meant the startup life wasn’t an attractive one for many.
For context: Per a recent IMF report that cites CB Insights data, as of October 2023, the U.S. had about 661 unicorns, China counted 172, and the U.K. had 52. Japan had a mere seven unicorns. (PitchBook pegs the number of Japanese startups at nine, so it’s possible we have more unicorns in the market than these datasets suggest.)
But things are looking up — somewhat. Young graduates are increasingly breaking from the mold, opting to strike out on their own instead of working within existing corporate systems. And the Japanese government is trying to attract interest in the country’s startups once again.
The government’s “Startup Development Five-Year Plan,” for one, was launched in 2022 and aims to help create 100,000 startups and foster 100 unicorns by 2027 by promoting incubators, strengthening funding with a venture fund, diversifying exit avenues, and more. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government earlier this year launched Tokyo Innovation Base, a startup hub that organizes networking events and pitch competitions and offers workspaces for founders. There’s also a Startup Visa that makes it easier for venture capital firms, startups, and accelerators to set up in Japan, and there’s a special tax system for angel investors. It helps that the country is home to about 130 accelerators, which isn’t too bad given the size of the market.
Despite these advantages, most of the venture capital invested in Japan comes from outside it. The IMF report mentioned found that between 2010 and 2023, investors from the U.S. accounted for 50% of investment in Japanese startups, investors from the U.K. made up about 10%, and Japanese investors lagged at only 5%.
For example, Bessemer Venture Partners recently invested for the first time in a Japanese startup, a food-delivery company called Dinii. “Having been fortunate to be a key investor in Toast in the U.S., supporting it to become a $13 billion company, we see a similar element of success in Dinii,” Bryan Wu of Bessemer Venture Partners said at the time.
Japanese startups usually decide to go public sooner in their development than startups in other countries. For example, they may go public after just a couple of funding rounds, thanks to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s lenient IPO rules. So it’s likely we might see the unicorns listed below doing an IPO sooner than later.
Here are a few unicorns from Japan that are worth keeping an eye on.
Spiber
Total funding raised: $653 million
Last funding round: $65 million (10 billion JPY) in April 2024
Key investors: Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Investments, Goldwin, Kansai Paint, Iowa Economic Development Authority, Shinsei Bank, and the Carlyle Group.
Spiber grabbed investor, and customers’, attention quite quickly with its environment-friendly biomaterials that have a huge array of applications. Companies across the fashion, cosmetics, and automotive industries use Spiber’s materials instead of animal, plant, or synthetic materials, and its customers include Pangaia, the North Face, Goldwin, Woolrich, Shiseido Japan, and Toyota.
In April this year, it raised about $65 million (10 billion JPY) to scale up production of its “Brewed Protein” materials, which have applications in textile production. It has 300 employees, and the company last year set up an office in Paris to promote its business in Europe.
SmartNews
Total funding raised: $479 million
Last funding round: $69.3 million venture debt round in January 2024
Key investors: Atomico, Asian Capital Alliance, Development Bank of Japan, Globis Capital Partners, Japan Post Capital, JIC Venture Growth Investments, SMBC Venture Capital, Social Venture Partners, Princeville Capital, and Woodline Partners.
Founded in 2012, news aggregator SmartNews sought to take a new approach as a news provider: It partnered with publications to offer a personalized and streamlined news feed to users. It launched in the U.S. in 2014 and quickly saw its fortunes burgeon. It became the first news startup to achieve a billion-dollar valuation since 2015, and then in 2021, its valuation shot up to $2 billion.
The startup, however, has found it difficult to retain users as social media platforms like X, Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky try to position themselves as places to read breaking news. The startup counted 1.7 million daily active users between Q1 2023 and Q3 2023, down nearly 30% from a year earlier, according to SensorTower.
SmartHR
Total funding raised: $362 million
Last funding round: $140 million Series E in June 2024
Key investors: Beenext, Coral Capital, KKR, Light Street Capital, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Teachers’ Ventures Growth (Arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan), World Innovation Lab, and Whole Rock.
Co-founded in 2015 by Kensuke Naito and Shoji Miyata, SmartHR has been seeing strong demand for its SaaS platform, which helps enterprises manage and streamline human resources and operations, in the past couple of years. Its ARR hit $100 million in February 2024, up from $80 million in FY 2023. SmartHR joined the unicorn club after raising about $115 million Series D at a valuation of $1.6 billion in May 2021.
Sakana AI
Total funding raised: $344 million
Last funding round: $214 million funding in Series A in September
Key investors: Dai-ichi Life, Fujitsu, Global Brain, Itochu, JAFCO, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, Mizuho, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), New Enterprise Associates, Nomura, Nvidia, SBI, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Sony, Translink Capital, and 500 Global.
Founded in 2023 by former Google AI engineers, Sakana AI focuses on training low-cost generative AI models using small datasets. The company’s co-founder and CEO, David Ha, previously worked as the head of research at Stability AI and was a researcher at Google.
The startup collaborates with Nvidia, the University of Oxford, and the University of British Columbia on research, data centers, and AI infrastructure. Sakana has 20 staff and has garnered good amounts of attention in Japan, which is keen to catch up to the U.S. and U.K. in the AI race — it even managed to secure processing time on one of Japan’s supercomputers. The startup raised a massive Series A round (about $214 million) in September at a valuation of $1.5 billion from major Japanese banks and tech companies.
Preferred Networks
Total funding raised: $152.19 million
Last funding round: $8.1 million Series C in 2018
Key investors: Chugai Pharma, FANUC, Hakuhodo DY, Hitachi, JXTG, Mitsui, Mizuho Bank, Tokyo Electron, and Toyota.
Founded in 2014, Preferred Networks designs semiconductors for use with AI, develops software for them, and builds generative AI foundation models. The company has deep learning and machine learning models for applications in robotics, manufacturing systems, drug discovery, 3D scanning, autonomous driving, e-commerce, and food inspection.
The startup in September landed a significant 69 billion yen (about $463 million) investment from Japanese financial services firm SBI Holdings to develop semiconductors specifically for AI applications. And it has contracted Samsung to build 2-nanometer chips for AI.
OPN
Total funding raised: $222 million
Last funding round: $120 million Series C+ funding in May 2022
Key investors: JIC Venture Growth Investments, Mars Growth Capital, MUFG, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
OPN, a fintech startup formerly known as Synqa, first started its business in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2014. OPN offers a range of services, including mobile payments, online payments, and virtual cards, to over 7,000 merchants. Its customers include Toyota as well as Thai firms such as duty-free store operator King Power, telco company True, and online insurance provider Roo Jai.
The company now operates in Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In 2022, the company acquired U.S.-based MerchantE for about $400 million to establish a presence in the U.S. Most recently, the company announced a strategic partnership with BigPay, a Malaysian e-wallet platform that was recently launched in Thailand.
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