Mythical Games Acquires Guildford-based Metaverse Streaming Platform Polystream
News | 04-02-2022
Los Angeles based, Mythical Games, a leader in the growing play-to-earn gaming industry, today announced its acquisition of Polystream, whose interactive streaming platform transforms how real-time 3D content is streamed at scale. Polystream’s breakthrough technology seamlessly delivers everything required for outstanding interactive 3D consumer entertainment, enabling gamers and non-gamers alike to instantly engage with the content they love, without the need for massive game client downloads. The acquisition follows Mythical’s Series C raise in November 2021 of $150m at a $1.25b valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, and the announcement of the first developer partners signed to the Mythical Platform.
Polystream’s headquarters in Guildford UK will provide Mythical with a European hub that will become the epicenter for cloud-native, blockchain-based technology and games, and Polystream co-founders Bruce Grove and Adam Billyard will become part of the senior leadership team.
Our mission, from day one, was to disrupt everything we know about cloud native gaming. I can’t express how excited I am today that now, as part of Mythical Games, our platform will bridge the gap between blockchain-based technology and millions of consumers, bringing the benefits of NFT gaming to an even larger stage via accessible mass-market games,” said Bruce Grove, co-founder and CEO of Polystream. “We’ve been following Mythical for a long time, and they share our vision of a metaverse that not only hands ownership of IP back to the creators and the users, but importantly, makes it fun. I’m so proud of all my team for never giving up on building the impossible, and we can’t wait to start working with our new friends and colleagues at Mythical.”
About Polystream:
Amazing experiences at unimaginable scale, Polystream is the ONLY platform making the metaverse real. Our breakthrough Web 3.0 command streaming technology instantly delivers everything required for outstanding 3D consumer entertainment experiences and unprecedented business productivity.
Founded in 2015 and based in Guildford UK (the “Hollywood of Games”) Polystream is a team of ambitious disruptors, led by pioneers in graphics and cloud technologies, Bruce Grove and Adam Billyard; formally Sun Microsystems, Dell XPS, OnLive, Renderware, Criterion Games, and EA.
Polystream’s metaverse is the successor to the modern internet; an interoperable virtual experience that seamlessly knits together incredibly immersive games, interactive apps and NFTs, and synchronously social experiences that are delivered instantly to new communities around the world. We want to positively connect people to each other in ways never before imagined.
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