Former Google Play marketer gathers veterans for a new mobile game startup

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 5, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

Former Google Play marketing boss Patrick Mork has teamed with industry veterans to form a new game studio called Unspoken Tales. It plans to make an action role-playing game with an eye toward providing gamers with a next-generation mobile experience.

Patrick "Mad" Mork of Unspoken Tales — Patrick “Mad” Mork of Unspoken Tales

Mork saw a lot of games come over the transom while he was at Google and indie app store GetJar before that. Now he wants to take a turn at running a game studio with a number of console and mobile game veterans. Mork has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Signia Ventures while incubating the startup.

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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.