1C has become the official publisher of games for the XBox 360

On Thursday, 1C and Microsoft announced the beginning of close cooperation in the development and publishing of games for the XBox 360. The agreement concluded between them reinforces the assignment of the Russian game software heavyweight to the status of the official game publisher for the console. According to Alexey Badaev, the main person at Microsoft to promote XBox in Russia and the CIS *, this status puts “1C” on a par with gaming empires of the Electronic Arts scale.

The firstborn of this beautiful union will be the Gaijin studio, which does not need the introduction of Il-2 Attack: Birds of Prey (the game still does not have an approved Russian name) and Captain Blood (the name is also conditional), developed by the internal studio 1C "" Sea Wolf ". Both are promised in 2009. However, no one is going to dwell on them.

In addition to developing their own, the manufacturer of the most popular yellow boxes in Russia will continue to actively localize foreign games. Nikolay Baryshnikov, who works in the “1C” game direction *, said that the work on Fallout 3, for example, is almost complete.
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