Elemental Games
Elemental Games was a game development company based in Vladivostok, Russia, best known for the multi-genre science fiction computer games Space Rangers and the sequel, Space Rangers 2:Dominators.
Overview
Elemental Games was founded in December, 1999 as NewGame Software, a division of Degro, Ltd.[1] NewGame Software's first releases were the freeware turn-based strategy game The General and the desktop application Panels.[2] The company changed its name to Elemental Games in September, 2002.[3] Its second game, Space Rangers, was released in December, 2002, by 1C Company. The sequel Space Rangers 2 was published in November, 2004. Following the release of Space Rangers 2, most members of the Elemental Games staff, including director general Dmitry Gusarov, departed to form a new game development company, Katauri Interactive, which released version 2.0 of Space Rangers 2, called Space Rangers 2: Reloaded, in Russia on September 7, 2007.
On Dec. 29, 2009 the company started a beta test for a new browser-based game called "Empire". The game action takes place in a few years after events in Space Rangers 2. "Disown way to global problems, the rulers of independent worlds, however, do not forget about their claims to the neighbors. As a result, some here and there began to appear local conflicts that plunged the inhabited part of the galaxy in chaos. Chaos, which spawned not only adventurers of all stripes, a new wave of piracy and the era of the superiority of force over the millennia-old laws, but a galaxy of colorful characters whose purpose was to combine disparate worlds into a single coalition."[4]
References
- "The Company". NewGame Software (official website). Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- "About company". Elemental Games (official website). Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- "News". Elemental Games (official website). Archived from the original on 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- "News". Elemental Games (official website). Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
External links
- Elemental Games (official website)
- Elemental Games Forum (Space Rangers Forum)
- NewGame Software (official website)
- Russian Wikipedia page