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Mythical Games expands overseas and acquires assets of U.K. game studio Shortround Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mythical Games has acquired tech and staff from Shortround Games, a game studio based in Brighton, England. And Mythical, the maker of Blankos Block Party, has also opened offices in Seoul, South Korea, and Stockholm, Sweden.

Mythical makes games and provides technology based on blockchain and nonfungible tokens (NFTs), with a focus on enabling people to play and earn rewards at the same time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.