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Live the long journey from Syria to Europe in Massïra, an indie game about a refugee girl and her grandmother by Spanish indie studio Frost Monkey Massïra released today for €12.99 / £9.99 on the PlayStation®Store.

Press release:
Madrid, February 20th. Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain (SIE Spain) and indie developers Frost Monkey announce the release of Massira, a low-poly puzzle and exploration game that puts players in the shoes of Numi, a girl forced to leave her house in Syria with her grandmother Yara.

Together they will flee the war making the long journey from Syria to Europe. Inspired by real facts and experiences, with deep social roots and a beautifully crafted art style, players will face many different problems from the protagonist’s imaginative and naïve point of view. Massira is now available for digital download on the PlayStation®Store for €12.99 / (PEGI 7).

The team that made this game possible is the Spanish indie studio Frost Monkey, which won the Best Art Award in the 4th Edition of the PlayStation® Awards, and which had the support of Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain through its programme of support for indie developers PlayStation® Talents.

You can find a 15-minutes long demo of Massira here.

ABOUT PLAYSTATION® TALENTS
Launched in 2015 by Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain, the PlayStation® Talents program aims to unify all the initiatives put together by the local Spanish branch in order to develop the Spanish creativity.

The goal of the PlayStation Talents program is to support the local industry as well as to create video games fully developed in Spain to be sold around the globe. The PlayStation Talents program is formed by:

Two educational areas:
PlayStation® Futuros Talentos and PlayStation® First
The PlayStation® Awards, aimed at independent studios.
PlayStation® Games Camp, a business incubator that is present in Madrid, Sevilla, Bilbao, Valencia, Málaga, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
PlayStation® Alianzas, where different projects with well-known local studios that have been sold overseas come together.

More information at: http://www.playstationtalents.es/

ABOUT SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation® brand and family of products and services.

PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Vita, PlayStation®3, PlayStation™Store, PlayStation®Plus, PlayStation™Video, PlayStation™Music, PlayStation™Now, PlayStation™Vue, and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios.

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has global functions in California, London, and Tokyo.