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洛杉矶–（美国商业资讯）–下一代游戏科技工作室Mythical Games今天宣布又完成一笔1900万美元的风投，该公司重点发展玩家所有经济下的数字生态，本次投资主要来自Javelin Venture Partners，新加入的投资方包括Avon Ventures, Alumni Ventures, 和Hashed，现有投资方Galaxy Digital也通过其Galaxy EOS VC Fund和Struck Capital追加投资。去年，Mythical Games在种子轮和A轮融资中获得1600万美元，加上本次融资，其融资总额高达3500万。Mythical认为，未来游戏娱乐业是建立在玩家、主播、内容编创者、品牌和游戏开发团队之间的亲密联系基础上的。该公司建立了一个平台满足开发团队建立玩家所有经济的需求，提供了新工具，保证内容编创者能够游戏内资产所有权、品牌能够在此建立和个性化游戏。
“我们对原有和新加入的投资者、团队和董事会成员表中心g欢迎。我们已经获得了充足的资金带领PC、单机、和手机游戏经济的发展，让玩家、品牌、电子竞技团队、主播能够直接参与到游戏经济中。我们相信这个新的趋势会席卷整个游戏行业，我们也迫不及待想把Blankos Block Party引入市场，切实地展示这个经济模式，并和世界各地优秀的游戏工作者分享我们的平台。”Mythical Games地CEO John Linden说。
“我们去年参与了Mythical的A轮投资之后就被他们在建立Blankos Block Party和Mythical平台上体现的执行力深深折服。Blankos上的游戏都很有趣、游戏很丰富也很吸引人。它体现了玩家所有的经济能给怎样丰富游戏，我们也迫不及待希望玩家都能试一试。我们很高兴，这么多在广义游戏和区块链生态上的主要行业伙伴都能支持我们的想法。我们也很高兴能够引领Mythical Games这次融资、支持它们的公开发行。”Javelin Venture Partners的Alex Gurevich补充说。
除了获得这次的投资以外，Mythical还招聘了四位巨头，加强了其领导团队，他们是Jeff Poffenbarger, Pete Hawley, Nicole Yang, 和Greg Deutsch。Jeff Poffenbarger出任首席运营官，管理该公司日常运行。之前他曾任Oculus VR的工作室负责人、在动视和动视暴雪担任高级监制，带领团队推出了《宝贝龙》、《托尼霍克极限滑板》、《漫威争霸》等游戏。Pete Hawley 担任首席产品官，他将负责工作室的游戏和产品开发、向其它工作室和发布商推广Mythical平台。他有丰富的游戏行业从业经验，曾经担任过Zynga的资深副总裁、参与创办红色机器人实验室并在其中担任CPO，在艺电担任果产品开发副总裁、Lionhead Studios监制、并在Criterion监制发行《火爆狂飙》。Nicole Yang则担任市场副总监，负责市场攻略和受众开发。在此之前，她是Telltale Games的市场副总监、是Zynga的产品运营，她早先工作过的不少小公司后来被动视、Perion Network或Machine Zone收购，她还是Humen AI的顾问。Greg Deutsch则加入Mythical担任总顾问，他之前在动视担任果多年的总顾问、资深副总裁、负责过企业和法律事务。离开动视之后，他在各种不同的初创企业担任过总顾问和顾问，这些公司后来不少被苹果、Facebook、FanDuel、Opera、索尼互动、联合技术等公司收购。
最后，Mythical还表示，除了融资和招聘以外，它还新增Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners) 为董事会成员、新增独立董事会成员鸠山玲人（Hello Kitty母公司三丽鸥的前全球COO），他将成为继现有的Galaxy Digital的Sam Englebardt、John Linden, 和Jamie Jackson之外的第四个独立董事。对Mythical来说，鸠山的加入是非常重要的，因为该工作室在不断扩展，并希望能把其业务推广到全球品牌合作商、产品、运动、音乐和技术领域的红人中。
Mythical Games现在有30多个全职员工，在洛杉矶和西雅图有办公点。2018年，它由CEO John Linden, CCO Jamie Jackson, 和市场服务副总裁Rudy Koch共同成立。先前，他们在董事暴风都担任过t管理职位，他们都带领过知名游戏品牌–《使命召唤》、《魔兽世界》、《Guitar Hero Live》、《宝贝龙》等–的世界级开发团队。
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2019年，福布斯杂志把Mythical列入“值得关注的颠覆性科技公司”排行中，Mythical Games在创建的游戏生态能通过个性化的体验和内容把玩家、编创者、品牌和游戏开发展联系起来。公司的管理团队都是游戏行业的资深人士，团队专注围绕玩家所有的经济搭建游戏，管理团队参与开发过著名的游戏，如《使命召唤》、《魔兽世界》、《Guitar Hero 》、《神威战队》、《宝贝龙》和《当个创世神：故事模式》，获得更多信息，请访问http://mythical.games或在Twitter上关注Mythical。
Mythical Games的第一艘旗舰名叫Blankos Block Party，这是一款建立在Mythical平台上活跃线上世界的MMO游戏。玩家可以进行竞技、创建自己的玩法、融合Blankos这些数字搪胶玩具。这一款游戏改变了玩家、品牌、内容编创者和游戏开发者的游戏经济关系，也展示了Mythical对于玩家所有经济的愿景。获得更多信息或想参加马上开始的公测，请访问www.blankos.com，或在Twitter和Discord上关注Blankos
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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mythical Games (http://mythical.games), a next generation game technology studio specializing in digital ecosystems around player-owned economies, today announced that the company has closed an additional $19 Million USD in venture funding. Led by Javelin Venture Partners, new investors include Avon Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Hashed as well as participation from current investors Galaxy Digital via its Galaxy EOS VC Fund and Struck Capital. Mythical Games raised $16 Million last year in Seed and Series A rounds, bringing total funding to $35 Million to date. Mythical is embracing a future in which gaming entertainment’s foundation is built on intimate ties between players, influencers and content creators, brands and game developers. The team is providing a platform for game developers to create player-owned economies and producing new tools to provide ownership of in-game assets for content creators and brands to build and customize.
“We are very excited with the support from our new and existing investors, team and board members. We are well capitalized to lead this evolution in gaming economics for PC, console, and mobile games bringing participation from players, brands, eSports teams, and influencers directly into the game economics. We believe this new trend will come to dominate games and can’t wait to bring Blankos Block Party to market to show this new economy in action and share our platform with other incredible game studios around the world,” said John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games.
“Since investing in Mythical’s Series A round last year, we have been incredibly impressed by the team’s execution on the build out of Blankos Block Party and the Mythical Platform. The Blankos gameplay is fun, rich, and engaging. It demonstrates the enrichment player-owned economies can have on a game and we cannot wait for gamers to try it. It has been wonderful to see various large industry partners in the broader gaming and blockchain ecosystem embrace our approach. We are thrilled to lead this round of financing for Mythical Games to support their public launch,” added Alex Gurevich of Javelin Venture Partners.
Alongside its latest investment, Mythical has bolstered its leadership team with four significant hires in Jeff Poffenbarger, Pete Hawley, Nicole Yang, and Greg Deutsch. Jeff Poffenbarger joins as Chief Operating Officer and oversees the running of the company’s day-to-day operations. Most recently he was a Studio Head at Oculus VR with extensive experience as a Senior Executive Producer at Activision and Activision Blizzard leading multiple game launches for the Skylanders, Tony Hawk, and Marvel franchises. Pete Hawley joins as Chief Product Officer in which he will helm the studio’s slate of game and product development and the adoption of the Mythical platform to other game studios and publishers. His expansive games industry background includes roles as SVP of Games at Zynga, Co-Founder/CPO of Red Robot Labs, VP of Product Development at Electronic Arts, and Executive Producer at Lionhead Studios and Criterion heading Burnout Paradise. Nicole Yang joins as Vice President of Marketing to spearhead go-to-market strategy and audience development. Most recently VP of Marketing at Telltale Games and Product Marketing at Zynga, she was an early employee at multiple startups acquired by Activision, Perion Network, and Machine Zone and is an advisor at Humen AI. Greg Deutsch joins as Mythical’s General Counsel and was formerly General Counsel and SVP, Business & Legal Affairs at Activision for many years. Following Activision, he served as General Counsel and advisor for early to growth stage startups in emerging categories including acquisitions by Apple, Facebook, FanDuel, Opera Software, Sony Interactive and Unity Technologies.
Rounding off the investment and hiring, Mythical shared that it has also strengthened its board of directors with the addition of Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners) and independent board member Rehito Hatoyama (formerly Global COO of Sanrio, Hello Kitty) who join existing board members Sam Englebardt of Galaxy Digital, John Linden, and Jamie Jackson. Rehito’s addition is significant as the studio’s expansion has focused on growing its business to involve global brand partners and influencers in the consumer goods, sports, music and technology space.
With over 30 full-time employees and offices in Los Angeles and Seattle, Mythical Games was founded in 2018 by CEO John Linden, CCO Jamie Jackson, and VP of Marketplace Services, Rudy Koch. In their previous executive roles at Activision Blizzard, they led world-class development teams for gaming brands including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero Live, Skylanders and more.
About Mythical Games:
Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Disruptive Technology Companies To Watch in 2019, Mythical Games is enabling a gaming ecosystem that brings players, creators, brands and game developers together through personalized experiences and content. Led by gaming industry veterans, the team specializes in building games around player-owned economies and has helped develop major franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero, Marvel Strike Force, Skylanders and Minecraft: Story Mode. For more information, visit: http://mythical.games or follow Mythical on Twitter.
Mythical Games’ first flagship title ‘Blankos Block Party’ is a MMO set in a vibrant online world built on the Mythical platform. Players can compete in games, create their own game play, and blend digital vinyl toys called Blankos. This first game transforms the relationship of game economies for players, brands, content creators and game developers and showcases Mythical’s vision of player-owned economies. For more information or interest in participating in the upcoming beta release, visit: www.blankos.com, or follow Blankos on Twitter or Discord.
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