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Think the Japanese market is hard to crack? Try breaking into the American one. Game site Cosmos Gaming has a nice piece up on the state of Russian game development. It contains an interview with four different companies: 1C Company, IT Territory, Step Creative Group and Lesta Studio. They discuss tops like titles they are working on and offer criticism on Russian games localized into English. So why do Russian games go largely unnoticed abroad? Says company rep Anatoly Subbotin:
First of all some of the games developed and produced in Russia by our developers are based on local franchises which are not that popular to say the least outside of the ex-USSR counties. Some of them are still published outside the CIS market, but this is rather rare.Russian games do not always find their way to American or European markets due to publishers' policy and I guess it is better to ask them why they decide to sign or not to sign a particular game.
Because in ex-Soviet Russia the games sign you! (Apologies. I couldn't resist.)
State of Russian Gaming [Cosmos Gaming]
