What happened On Thursday, Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ) attracted some bullish investors with the announcement of a new game. The company's shares promptly experienced a bump, closing the day 1.3% higher. So what The game is a mobile title that's the latest entry in the Big Buck Hunter franchise. Called Big Buck Hunter: Marksman, it's a first-person shooter (FPS) game with a hunting theme. Skillz, a mobile video games platform specialist, created the new game in partnership with the franchise's developer, Play Mechanix. Image source: Getty Images. Skillz emphasized that Marksman is its first entry in the durably popular FPS genre. The Big Buck Hunter series seems like a good choice for such a debut, as it's a long-established series that started life over 20 years ago as a video-arcade game. Marksman will get a marketing push early next month, with Skillz hosting a two-day tournament for its players at the annual Big Buck Hunter World Championship. This is to be held in Chicago starting next Friday, Oct. 1. The best marksman in the tournament will be awarded a $5,000 prize. While Big Buck Hunter doesn't have instant name recognition among the general public due to its specialized target demographic of hunting enthusiasts, Skillz quoted its CEO Andrew Paradise as saying that, "The fervent fan base behind FPS games like Big Buck Hunter number in the hundreds of millions." Now what Marksman's take-up seems to vindicate Paradise's words. According to Skillz, the game has already reached No. 3 in the list of most popular apps in the sports category in Apple's App Store. The game is also available for Android, the operating system from Alphabet's Google, although Skillz didn't mention how popular it is on that platform. 10 stocks we like better than Skillz Inc.When our award-winning analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.* They just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Skillz Inc. wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of September 17, 2021 Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Eric Volkman owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Apple, and Skillz Inc. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long March 2023 $120 calls on Apple and short March 2023 $130 calls on Apple. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.Source