SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – 13th March 2023: PLAION is excited to announce they have partnered with Patches Paradise to create an exclusive collection of twelve bespoke vintage jackets to celebrate the launch of adventure RPG Mato Anomalies in Australia & New Zealand.
Australian small business, Patches Paradise, focuses on sustainable fashion through repurposing vintage denim jackets with art to create one-of-a-kind collectables. They were influenced by Mato Anomalies’ anime-inspired visual novel storyline, when hand-painting our protagonists onto the jackets. Only twelve limited-edition jackets have been created worldwide, turning Mato Anomalies dual protagonists, Doe and Gram, into wearable art.
In Mato Anomalies, players can gather intel as the private detective, Doe, or venture into rifts and battle demonic abominations as the resolute exorcist, Gram. The jackets will allow players to fully immerse themselves in Mato, the fantasised neo-futuristic version of a bygone oriental city, as they team up with unlikely companions and unravel the dark secrets in this story of Duty, Hope and Justice.
To celebrate the launch of Mato Anomalies, two fans across Australia and New Zealand could win one of the exclusive hand-painted jackets. Fans can head to PLAION ANZ’s Twitter page and follow the instructions for their chance to win: https://twitter.com/PLAION_ANZ/.
Mato Anomalies is now available digitally on PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC (only on Steam). Mato Anomalies will release physically on 17th March 2023 across PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo in Australia and New Zealand.
ABOUT MATO ANOMALIES:
Mato Anomalies is a turn-based RPG that takes players on a journey across Mato, a fantasised neo-futuristic version of a bygone oriental city. Take control of the Dual Protagonists Doe and Gram to investigate strange anomalies around the city, or venture into rifts to battle demonic abominations determined to bring about the city’s downfall.
ABOUT ARROWIZ:
Established in 2016 by creatives and executives from CCP, Take-Two, Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Arrowiz is a global video game developer with offices in Shanghai, China and Irvine, California. Initially established to develop products for the VR market with BEATS FEVER (published by Sunsoft in Japan and by Arrowiz globally), the team reimagined its focus towards story-driven video games, with its initial launch HERMITAGE: STRANGE CASE FILES (published by Bilibili for China and by Giiku Games globally) becoming the best-selling Chinese visual novel on Steam in 2019. Arrowiz aims to create innovative, original games and transform world-famous stories into wonderful experiences for global audiences.
ABOUT PRIME MATTER:
Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Prime Matter is the premium gaming label dedicated to delivering a range of diverse and immersive games from amazing gaming development talents all around the globe.
Working across projects of all styles, scopes and sizes, single-player, co-op to live ops, from producing to publishing, from ambitious teams taking their first step that need full support without compromising their dream to larger established successful studios searching that next step in the global market and building of brands.
Prime Matter looks to lead through creativity, expression and passion, with games that will grip and enchant with enthralling story-telling, winning an audience with its incredible moments and larger-than-life experiences. Prime Matter is a proud member of the PLAION Group, formerly known as Koch Media.
ABOUT PLAION:
PLAION is a leading independent developer and producer of games and entertainment products, with nine development studios and five publishing units based all over the world. Founded in 1994 as Koch Media, PLAION offers a unique breadth of services and solutions, dynamically growing its business to push ourselves and our partners to the forefront in all the segments we operate in.
PLAION runs a multi-label strategy, with fully owned publishing units, such as Deep Silver, Prime Matter, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.
Additionally – as a global publishing partner – PLAION has formed long-term multinational publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, Focus Multimedia, Giants Software, Koei Tecmo, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, THQ Nordic, Tripwire, Warner Bros and many others.
With its parent company in Höfen, Austria – and the HQ in Munich, Germany – PLAION owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.
PLAION owns nine game development studios: Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham, UK), Fishlabs (Hamburg, DE), Warhorse Studios (Prague, CZ), Milestone (Milan, IT), Voxler (Paris, FR) , DigixArt (Montpellier, FR), Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów, PL), Free Radical Design (Nottingham, UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, NL). Additionally, PLAION collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.
Part of PLAION is also PLAION PICTURES, a leading independent film distributor in Europe with a library of more than 1.400 titles. Further business operations include Sola Media, a sales agency and production company for family entertainment, Spotfilm Networx, a multi-channel streaming network, and a sub-label dedicated to Japanese animation.
PLAION also owns the leading video game merchandise company DPI Merchandising (Denver, Roseburg, USA and Munich, DE) and a Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, CZ.
PLAION is an Embracer Group company.
