Gaijin Entertainment
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Overview

Origins of the company were established in 2002. Gaijin team specializes in creation of games for various platforms (Xbox 360
Xbox 360
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/PlayStation 3
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/Microsoft Windows
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/iOS). It also pays attention to technology-related research work. Gaijin team is represented by six departments and over sixty employees. The company's projects have received a range of mass media and game industry awards including a few KRI Awards as «Best simulator for next-gen consoles» (IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3), «Best technologies» for Dagor Engine™, «Best sound» and others.

Today's Gaijin Entertainment is the biggest independent video games developer in Russia and an official partner of Activision
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, 505 Games
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, Microsoft
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, TopWare Interactive
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, SouthPeak Interactive
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, Sony Computer Entertainment
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, 1C Company
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, Apple Inc. and many others.

Games

  • Adrenaline
  • Anarchy: Rush Hour
  • Apache: Air Assault
    Apache: Air Assault
    Apache: Air Assault is a combat flight simulator video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was developed by Russian developer Gaijin Entertainment and published by Activision....

  • Braveheart - released for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
  • Death Track: Resurrection
    Death Track: Resurrection
    Death Track: Resurrection is a computer racing game developed by SkyFallen Entertainment and published by 1C Company. It is the sequel to the 1989 game Deathtrack. Outside of the CIS, the game was published by 505 Games in the European Union and Aspyr Media in North America, which was released DRM...

  • IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
    IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
    IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, or Wings of Prey on the PC, is a combat flight simulator video game. As with previous installments of the PC series IL-2 Sturmovik, it depicts combat aircraft from World War II...

    - released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. An enhanced version retitled as Wings of Prey was released for the PC.
  • Modern Conflict - released for iPhone and iPad.
  • Skydive: Proximity Flight - work in progress.
  • X-Blades
    X-Blades
    X-Blades is an action-adventure game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The player assumes the role of Ayumi who wields two pistol-blades. The game was developed by Gaijin Entertainment and was published by SouthPeak Interactive and TopWare Interactive...

    - enhanced version of Oniblade released for all three major platforms.

Released only in Russia

  • Fellas and the Ring - based on the gag dub translation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Goblin
    Dmitry Puchkov
    Dmitry Yuryevich Puchkov , also known as Goblin and Starshiy Operupolnomocheniy Goblin, is an English-to-Russian movie and video game translator, script-writer, and author...

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  • Gangsta Ride - developed in collaboration with Goblin
    Dmitry Puchkov
    Dmitry Yuryevich Puchkov , also known as Goblin and Starshiy Operupolnomocheniy Goblin, is an English-to-Russian movie and video game translator, script-writer, and author...

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  • Oniblade
  • Paragraph 78 - based on the Russian film
    Paragraph 78
    Paragraph 78 is a Russian film by Mikhail Khleborodov released in 2007. The film was split into two parts Paragraph 78, Punkt 1 released February 22, 2007 and Paragraph 78, Punkt 2 released March 29, 2007....

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  • Wolfhound - based on a film of the same name.
  • Dead Man's Bluff - based on a film of the same name.
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