{"id":62784,"date":"2018-11-16T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/330940"},"modified":"2018-11-16T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:13:00","slug":"former-activision-blizzard-devs-launch-mythical-games-securing-16m-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/former-activision-blizzard-devs-launch-mythical-games-securing-16m-in-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Activision Blizzard devs launch Mythical Games, securing $16M in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles-based studio Mythical Games has secured $16 million in funding which will help fuel its efforts to develop\u00a0and co-produce\u00a0games across mobile, PC and consoles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The studio was founded earlier in the year by former Activision\u00a0CEO John Linden and CCO Jamie Jackson, with head of blockchain Rudy Koch (senior producer at Blizzard), and CPO Stephan Cunningham (Director, Global Product Management at Yahoo!).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As announced in a press release, the investment was led by Galaxy Digital\u2019s EOS VC Fund, with significant contributions from Javelin Venture Partners, DDC, Fenbushi, Noris, and OkCoin joining the round as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company is hoping\u00a0to innovate through providing its proprietary Mythical platform to developers in order\u00a0to help build player-owned economies on\u00a0blockchains.\u00a0According to the press release, the company will also focus on producing new tools for content creators and brands to customize and provide ownership of game assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles-based studio Mythical Games has secured $16 million in funding which will help fuel its efforts to develop\u00a0and co-produce\u00a0games across mobile, PC and consoles.\u00a0 The studio was founded earlier in the year by former Activision\u00a0CEO John Linden and CCO Jamie Jackson, with head of blockchain Rudy Koch (senior producer at Blizzard), and CPO Stephan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}