Game Empire Pulls In $4M

Boston-based Game Empire Enterprises has brought in $4.1 million in equity-based funding, an SEC filing reveals. The document notes the financing comes from two unnamed investors, and lists as company directors Thomas Matlack—Megunticook Management founder, former Providence Journal CFO, and a lead investor in Art Technology Group—as well as Megunticook prinicipal Michelle Fortier, and James Kittler, founder and partner of Boston personal financial services firm JDJ Resources. Game Empire Enterprises runs the massively multiplayer online game portal MMOhut.com, Mass High Tech reports.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.