Games and entertainment group GCL’s publishing division 4Divinity to bring Mundfish-developed action-RPG Atomic Heart to Asia, sets up $5M SGD Games Fund to promote and publish Southeast Asian PC and console titles
Bangkok, Thailand – 15 December 2022 – GCL, a regional games entertainment and content marketing group headquartered in Singapore, is pleased to announce that its publishing arm 4Divinity has signed an agreement with Mundfish to publish the upcoming first-person action role-playing game Atomic Heart on the Steam digital distribution platform for PC, as well as PlayStation® Store in Asia.
Under this agreement, 4Divinity will also be responsible for publishing the retail versions of Atomic Heart for the PlayStation®5 and PlayStation®4 video game consoles in Asia. These packaged (physical) editions will be distributed by GCL games subsidiary Epicsoft Asia within the Southeast Asia, Greater China and South Korea markets.
For the Japan market, 4Divinity is partnering with Tokyo-based Beep Japan to co-publish and distribute Atomic Heart on the PlayStation® platform for both digital and retail versions.
About Atomic Heart
Atomic Heart is a first-person action-RPG set in an alternate post-WWII world. Enter a world of wonders and perfection in which humans and their AI creations live in harmony… or so it seems. Set the record straight on this deceitful utopia, exploring a twisted sci-fi world, blasting rogue robots, giant machines and even mutants. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to have the upper hand in a visceral, spectacular and unforgiving combat experience. If you want to uncover the truth, you’ll have to pay in blood.
A Future Everyone Can Dream Of
A global system failure has occurred at the Soviet Facility №3826 that leads machinery to rebel against the people. You are Major P-3 and your task is to eliminate the consequences of a large-scale accident and prevent the leakage of classified information threatening to destroy the whole world.
Fierce Fighting
Study the behaviour of your enemies and observe how they relate to each other. Use the varied arsenal of arms and special abilities of your polymer glove. Turn everything into a weapon: environment, objects, your own body, and even enemies themselves! Every fight will be different from the last.
What Lies Behind The Dream?
Explore huge research facilities and test sites. Find out more about the employees and their ways of life and work. Uncover Soviet secrets! But know that death hides in every corner.
Can you survive?
An Entwined World Ecosystem
A neural network named “Kollektiv” unifies ground-based and flying robots alike into a single hivemind. If you are noticed either above or under the ground, the reinforcements from the nearest factory will come to kill you. Use hacking to break in unnoticed.
Check out the latest action-packed Atomic Heart trailer here! https://youtu.be/vGJ5G3sLk7E
Asian release, pre-orders and pricing
Across Asia, Atomic Heart will be released on Windows PC alongside the rest of the world, on 21 February 2023. For the PlayStation® platforms, the digital and retail versions will also be released on the same day in Southeast Asia and Greater China.
When it comes to pre-orders for PC, players can already pre-order the game on Steam, which will come with a Pre-order Bonus consisting of exclusive weapon skins, in the form of the Labour & Science Weapon Skin Pack.
These are the current prices on Steam for the Windows PC version of Atomic Heart:
| Country | Currency | Standard Ed. | Gold Ed. | Premium Ed. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | IDR | 5090000 | 719000 | 859000 |
| Malaysia | MYR | 189 | 269 | 299 |
| Philippines | PHP | 1995 | 2895 | 3390 |
| Singapore | SGD | 69.9 | 99.9 | 119.9 |
| Thailand | THB | 1490 | 2090 | 2390 |
| Vietnam | VND | 750000 | 1150000 | 1300000 |
| China | CNY | 239 | 339 | 399 |
| Hong Kong | HKD | 388 | 548 | 659 |
| Taiwan | TWD | 1590 | 2290 | 2690 |
| Japan | JPY | 8800 | 13800 | 15800 |
| South Korea | KRW | 69800 | 100800 | 119800 |
Meanwhile, on the PlayStation® Store in Asia (except for Japan and South Korea), players can add the game to their wishlist now and pre-order starting January 2023. They will also receive the Labour & Science Weapon Skin Pack as a Pre-order bonus.
The pre-order and release dates in Japan and South Korea on PlayStation® consoles will be announced later.
On digital platforms, three editions are available for pre-orders (and prices):
- Standard Edition (USD $69.99), consisting of the base game
- Gold Edition (USD $99.99), consisting of the base game and the Atomic Pass
- Premium Edition (USD $109.99), consisting of the Gold Edition, an exclusive digital artbook and premium weapon skins.
The Atomic Pass takes the Atomic Heart experience further with four DLCs (downloadable contents), opening up access to new areas and labs as well as new weapons, new enemies, bosses and more!
These are the PlayStation® Store prices in local Asian currencies:
| Country | Currency | Standard Ed. | Gold Ed. | Premium Ed. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | IDR | 999,000 | 1,399,000 | 1,579,000 |
| Malaysia | MYR | 299 | 419 | 459 |
| Singapore | SGD | 97.90 | 137.90 | 149.90 |
| Thailand | THB | 2,343 | 3,306 | 3,627 |
| Hong Kong | HKD | 568 | 798 | 858 |
| Taiwan | TWD | 2,090 | 2,990 | 3,290 |
| South Korea | KRW | 77,800 | 109,800 | 119,799 |
For the retail version, two editions will be available:
- Standard Edition, consisting of the base game and the Labour & Science Weapon Skin Pack
- Limited Edition, which includes the base game, the Atomic Pass and premium weapon skins, an exclusive steelbook case, a beautifully printed artbook, a set of stickers featuring robot characters from the game and a specially designed outer box.
These are the PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 retail package prices in local Asian currencies:
| Country | Currency | Standard Ed. | Limited Ed. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | IDR | 990,000 | 1,690,000 |
| Malaysia | MYR | 319 | 489 |
| Philippines | PHP | 3,950 | 6,150 |
| Singapore | SGD | 99.00 | 149.00 |
| Thailand | THB | 2,480 | 3,850 |
| Hong Kong | HKD | 548 | 858 |
| Taiwan | TWD | 1,990 | 2,990 |
Pre-orders in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan with local retailers will kick off from 19 December 2022.
In Japan and South Korea, the pre-order details and local prices (SRP) for the retail version will be announced by Epicsoft Asia and Beep Japan nearer to the release date.
Launch of Atomicheart.asia website
To bring the world and lore of Atomic Heart to more players in Asia, 4Divinity has created a website http://atomicheart.asia which will provide more localized information about the game in Asian languages such as Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai and Bahasa Indonesia.
For more information on Atomic Heart, visit www.atomicheart.asia.
Launch Of 4Divinity Game Fund
As part of efforts to encourage the creation of regional games content, GCL is announcing the 4Divinity Games Fund of SGD $5.0M (USD $3.7M) to support the development and publishing of PC and console game titles, particularly from Southeast Asia. According to the CEO of GCL, Jacky Choo, “There are a wealth of great ideas and stories from Southeast Asia that can be turned into fun and moving game experiences, and we want to support creators in this area just like how we’ve supported creators in the YouTube space with Titan Digital Media. Our deep experience in partnering with top global publishers in the last 16 years to deliver AAA titles to markets in this region, puts us in a great position to identify future critical and commercial hits that would make a positive impact in the region’s games development scene”.
Regional game publishers or developers who are interested in this initiative or wish to collaborate, can contact 4Divinity at its website www.4divinity.asia.
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