$2M+ Series A Closed. $3.5M Raised To Date

Paydirt Games, Inc. Closes $2 Million Series A Financing Round to Accelerate Growth Ahead of Launch of Fatal Frontier 1869

NEWPORT BEACH, CA — October 20, 2025

Paydirt Games, Inc. (“Paydirt Games” or “the Company”), an independent video game studio developing real-world value entertainment experiences, today announced the successful closing of its Series A financing round, raising over $2,000,000 from a group of High Net Worth Individuals, Management, and a founder of Rebellion Software, one of the United Kingdom’s largest and most successful game development studios.

This follows the Company’s Seed round in Q1 2024, which raised more than $1,000,000, and brings Paydirt Games’ total funding to date to over $3.5 million. The proceeds from the Series A will be used to launch operations, scale its proprietary platform technology, and accelerate user acquisition marketing for the Company’s upcoming PC game Fatal Frontier 1869, scheduled to launch in late Fall 2025.

A Bold Vision for Skill-Based, Real-World Value Gaming

Paydirt Games commenced pre-launch marketing of Fatal Frontier 1869 in late Summer 2025 and has already built a substantial audience of U.S. players anticipating its release. Set in 19th-century Alaska, players command a crew of rugged pioneers prospecting for gold — gold that holds real-world monetary value.

The game blends survival, exploration, resource gathering, and combat into a skill-based “midcore” experience designed for PC audiences seeking depth and reward beyond traditional free-to-play titles. Fatal Frontier 1869 was designed with creative input from the co-creator of World of Warcraft and is powered by a Player Account Management (PAM), KYC, and payments platform engineered by professionals who previously built and scaled FanDuel’s regulated gaming infrastructure across multiple U.S. states.

Dermot S. Smurfit, President & CEO, commented “We’re offering players an exciting new way to play midcore PC games within established genres augmented by real money gameplay. Video gamers have both grown up and grown tired of games offering the same interactive entertainment models. Embedded real world value brings a visceral thrill to games where success or failure simply matters more.”

Dr Martin Smith, Chief Technical Officer, commented "Leveraging extensive understanding of real money gameplay systems we have implemented a unique and reusable technical framework designed to deliver fair outcomes to players challenged to exercise substantial physical and mental skill in pursuit of reward."

Kevin Beardslee, Creative Lead and Studio Head, commented “Designing F2P games with optional real money gameplay must to be done from ‘Day One’ in development. Retrofitting real money into an existing game will fail if not part of the design psychology and gameplay loops from ‘day one’. My studio team has blended questing, exploration, combat, survival, action RPG elements and more into an authentic pioneering game early players frequently describe as ‘Oregon Trail 2.0’. Times were tough then and so is this experience: Traversing a vast wilderness infested with wolves, bears and cut throats, carrying hundreds of dollars of hard-earned gold brings a whole new level of engagement and emotion to interactive entertainment.”

Direct-to-Player Distribution

Fatal Frontier 1869 will be available as a direct download via www.FatalFrontier.com — independent of third-party app stores — and is offered as a free-to-play (F2P) experience. Account-based gaming positions the Company to build shareholder value in the Platform designed to enable third party game developers to leverage the Company’s unique operational experience, compliance capabilities and skill-based game mechanisms powering real money gameplay loops.

About Paydirt Games, Inc.

Founded January 2024 in Newport Beach, California, Paydirt Games, Inc. develops immersive, skill-based video games where player performance drives real-world outcomes. The company’s proprietary platform integrates secure player identity, compliance, and payments to power the next generation of value-driven interactive entertainment.

For more information, please visit www.PaydirtGames.com or www.FatalFrontier.com.

Media & Corporate Enquiries:

James Rossetto, Senior Operations Director — james@paydirtgames.com

Paul Kim, Director of Finance – paul@paydirtgames.com

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We’re on the move: Strap in.

So we have money, core team and a clear direction of travel (oh, and a first playable demonstrating key gameplay systems). Huge thanks to all of our fledgling Company’s supporters and early investors. With the right idea, great people and enough gas in the tank to go the distance you can change any Industry. That’s what we’re aiming to do: Change an Industry. Not for the sake of it, but because change is needed.

Every wonder why you’re bored of playing games you grew up playing? Well, you just answered the question: You grew up (and that’s OK). As we get older, our tastes change, the palate becomes more sophisticated. You look for different things. At Paydirt Games we’re committed to innovation in the business model of videogaming in contexts where it makes sense.

More serious forms of videogaming as entertainment, designed to be enjoyed by a customer demographic of videogamers where the average is 42years (right?). Paydirt Games mission is to create compelling entertainment experiences with a specific purpose: Appeal to those who have ‘aged out’ of typical videogame genres. Those seeking something new, different, serious, FUN and visceral to warrant the time investment to play (time is our ultimate resource, particularly as we age, right?).

Let’s see how we get on. First company pit stop is GDC Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in ~4weeks’ time. We’ll be there, looking for contacts, recruits and to start Industry networking (and learning). By then we should have the first playable in the palm of our hands. What better audience to take the pulse of? Let’s find out the good, bad & ugly of 2024’s State of the (videogames) Industry. See you there!