As of December 31, 2018, the Company held a 41.3% ownership interest in Versus LLC, a privately held limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Nevada. The Company consolidates Versus LLC as a result of having full control over the voting shares. Versus LLC is a technology company that is developing a business-to-business software platform that allows video game publishers and developers to offer prize-based matches of their games to their players.

During 2019, the Company increased its ownership by 25.2% in a series of transactions through the issuance of common shares and warrants.

On March 1, 2022, the Company acquired an additional 15.1% interest in Versus LLC in exchange for 715 common shares of the Company. The common shares were determined to have a fair value of $186,294. As a result, the Company increased its ownership interest to 81.9% and recorded the excess purchase price over net identifiable assets of $4,562,631 against additional-paid-in-capital. The effect on non-controlling interest was a reduction of $4,376,337.

The following table presents summarized financial information before intragroup eliminations for the non-wholly owned subsidiary as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023.