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Steel City Interactive et PLAION signent un accord d’édition pour le jeu de boxe Undisputed

PLAION, le développeur, éditeur et distributeur de produits de divertissement, est fier d’annoncer aujourd’hui son partenariat d’édition avec Steel City Interactive, pour la sortie de leur jeu de boxe, Undisputed.

Undisputed a pour objectif d’être l’expérience de boxe la plus authentique qu’il soit. Il combine des visuels époustouflants avec un système de jeu de jambes révolutionnaire et une dimension stratégique poussée.
 
Ash Habib, PDG de Steel City Interactive a déclaré : « En tant que joueurs et fans de boxe, Undisputed est notre hommage à ce sport que nous aimons tant. Nous sommes ravis de nous associer à PLAION, qui partage notre passion, celle d’apporter la boxe aux joueurs. Leur expertise et leur soutien nous permettront de nous concentrer sur notre travail sur Undisputed, le roi des jeux de boxe ».
 
Le jeu proposera un roster de plus de 50 boxeurs jouables au lancement, comprenant notamment Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Deontay Wilder et Katie Taylor. Undisputed s’associera également avec les plus grandes fédérations et marques de boxe, telles que World Boxing Council, British Boxing Board of Control, Empire et bien d’autres.
 
Klemens Kundratitz, co-fondateur et PDG de PLAION a ajouté : « Nous sommes toujours à la recherche de formidables studios avec lesquels nous associer, et Steel City Interactive ne déroge pas à la règle en nous apportant un jeu excitant. Il a le potentiel de proposer une expérience de boxe vraiment authentique à tous les fans de jeux vidéo à travers le monde. Undisputed est une autre belle addition à notre catalogue de titres sur lesquels nous sommes fiers de travailler ».

About Steel City Interactive
Sheffield-based Steel City Interactive (SCI) was founded in 2020 by Ash Habib, along with his brothers Asif and Asad. Formed around the idea of creating the first major, new boxing game in over a decade. The rapidly growing studio now employs 34 people and has partnerships with the world of boxing’s leading companies including the WBC, Ring Magazine, CompuBox, BoxRec and many other prestigious boxing organisations. During development SCI has created innovative, proprietary technology to bring the world of boxing to life like never before.
About PLAION
PLAION is a leading independent developer and producer of games and entertainment products, with ten 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 ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL, USA), 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.