VG Entertainment

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VG Entertainment Ltd
ProductsSurvarium
Number of employees
40 (2013)
Websitevgentertainment.com

VG Entertainment Ltd (formerly Vostok Games) is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv. The company was founded in March 2012 by former employees of GSC Game World, including Oleg Yavorsky, after GSC had been shut down. The company developed the battle royale game Fear the Wolves (2019) and is working on Survarium, a free-to-play shooter game in early access since 2015.

History

On 9 December 2011, Sergiy Grygorovych shut down his video game development company,

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, which had been cancelled with GSC's demise. Consequently, the development team lowered their ambition for the game to a free-to-play multiplayer shooter game for personal computers. This led several investors to step forward and, in March 2012, the team came in contact with Vostok Ventures, which was looking for a game development team. An agreement between the two parties was reached within two weeks, and Vostok Games was founded that same month, shortly after which the company settled in offices in an industrial park in Kyiv. In September 2013, Vostok Games employed 40 former GSC employees in these offices.[1] Yavorsky acts as the studio's marketing manager.[2] Vostok Games' first project became Survarium, which it released into early access in 2015. It also created Fear the Wolves, a battle royale game set in Chernobyl, in 2019. In March 2022, shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vostok Games put the development of Survarium on hold to ensure that its developers were safe.[3] In July 2023, the company rebranded as VG Entertainment and announced that it was working on a new game.[4]

Games developed

Year Title Platform(s) Publisher(s) Ref.
2015 (early access) Survarium
Windows
 Vostok Games [5]
2019 Fear the Wolves Windows
Focus Home Interactive
 [6][7]

References

  1. ^ Hall, Charlie (8 September 2013). "Stalker fallout: Polygon traces the exodus from Kiev's legendary GSC Game World". Polygon. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. GamesIndustry.biz. Archived
    from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  3. ^ Phillips, Tom (10 March 2022). "Kyiv-based Survarium developer confirms work paused". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  4. ^ Harbuzova, Asya (25 July 2023). "Ukrayins'ka studiya Vostok Games zminyla nazvu. Teper vona VG Entertainment" Українська студія Vostok Games змінила назву. Тепер вона VG Entertainment [Ukrainian studio Vostok Games has changed its name. It is now VG Entertainment]. GameDev DOU (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  5. ^ Good, Owen S. (31 March 2015). "Survarium, the shooter made by STALKER alumni, launches April 2". Polygon. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived
    from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. USgamer. Archived from the original
    on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

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