Some HabbosAs reported by Red Herring (via PaidContent), Sulake, Finnish developer and publisher of the ridiculously popular Habbo Hotel has raised an additional $7.65 million from Japanese investors in order to expand into Japan and then the rest of Asia, and to help launch Habbo Mobile. This follows on the footsteps of a huge ($23 million) investment in 2004-2005. Habbo is one of the most popular virtual worlds on the planet, and gets about 7 million unique monthly users, mainly in the teen demographic.

My favorite thing about Habbo are the weekly live radio programs done by Sulake’s Canadian manager (and friend), Allan Best. He’s big on doing impressions and has a couple regular ‘characters’ that appear on the radio show. It apparently enjoys a relatively high percentage of listenership by Canadian Habbo players.

Neat stuff. Go Sulake!