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Mr Jacky Choo with marketing collateral for Atomic Heart. Sales for the game in Asia made up 49.6 per cent of total global sales as at April 2023. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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On Feb 21, Atomic Heart – a sci-fi shooter set in a 1950s Soviet Union infested with robots – was unleashed on the gaming world.

In just two hours, the game, developed by Mundfish, raked in US$2 million (S$2.7 million) in sales in Asia, recouping the investment of co-publisher 4Divinity, a subsidiary of GCL Asia, a Singapore games and entertainment software company.

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