HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 – TURBOCHARGED TO INCLUDE VEHICLES FROM THE FAST & FURIOUS SAGA

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EL SEGUNDO, California and MILAN, Italy – July 28, 2023 – Today, Milestone, a leading global racing game developer, and Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced a collaboration with Universal Games and Digital Platforms to include content inspired by one of cinema’s most popular global franchises, Fast & Furious, in Hot Wheels Unleashed™ 2 – Turbocharged.

From day one, players will be able to enjoy the unstoppable Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody, one of the iconic cars of the Fast & Furious Saga, with more vehicles from the franchise to be added post-launch as a downloadable content purchase.

This collaboration seals an exciting new synergy in the gaming industry, blending fan-favorite intellectual properties from two entertainment companies that have established themselves across pop culture. The association between Hot Wheels Unleashed™ and Fast & Furious emerged earlier this year in Universal Pictures’ Fast X, the latest chapter in the global blockbuster Fast & Furious Saga, where Dominic Toretto’s son Brian and sister Mia played the game in the film. Thanks to the engaging new gameplay mechanics of Hot Wheels Unleashed™ 2 – Turbocharged, fans will be able to replicate some of the most spectacular stunts performed in the films.

Besides boosting and drifting, Hot Wheels Unleashed™ 2 – Turbocharged gives players the opportunity to Jump and Double Jump, new mechanics that can be used to outmaneuver rivals or to dodge obstacles in tight spaces, whereas the Lateral Dash is the perfect tool to force opponents off the track or use them as bouncing pads. All of this will be possible while exploring the five brand-new environments featured in the game: an Arcade room that evokes the era of coin-operated games, a residential Backyard transformed into a racing arena, a Mini Golf Course situated in a Wild West town, a Dinosaur Museum, and a retro-style Gas Station diner.

With this collaboration, revealed through an adrenaline-filled trailer, Hot Wheels Unleashed™ 2 – Turbocharged proves to be a truly transmedia experience, extending well beyond the gaming community to Hot Wheels® and Fast & Furious fans worldwide.

“We’re delighted to bring these two iconic racing franchises even closer together in Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 – Turbocharged, building on years of collaboration with our wonderful partners at Universal Games and Digital Platforms” said Mike DeLaet, Global Head of Digital Gaming at Mattel. “You’d be hard pressed to find a more natural pairing than Hot Wheels and Fast & Furious, and the team at Milestone have done an outstanding job with bringing these fan-favorite vehicles to life in authentic Hot Wheels Unleashed fashion”.

“We are proud and excited to collaborate with Universal Games and Digital Platforms to bring the legendary Fast & Furious franchise to the virtual tracks of Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 – Turbocharged” – said Andrea Loiudice, Publishing Director at Milestone. “This partnership will fuel the adrenaline of players worldwide, who will unleash their imagination behind the wheel of their favorite Fast & Furious vehicles. We appreciate Mattel’s contribution to such a significant collaboration and we can’t wait to witness the thrill and joy it will bring to gamers worldwide”.

Hot Wheels Unleashed™ 2 – Turbocharged is available now for pre-order on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch™, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. For more information, visit hotwheelsunleashed.com.

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About Milestone
Founded in Milan in 1996, Milestone S.r.l. is one of the leading and longest established racing game developer in the world.  The 200+ people team is responsible for hit series like MotoGP™, MXGP and Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame, as well as own IPs Ride and Gravel. For more information please visit  www.milestone.it

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.

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