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MiST land – South ceases functioning
On the 1st of August, 2006 one of the oldest Russian developers MiST land – South ceases its functioning.
The reason for such, prima facie, sudden step is the decision of GFI (the owner of MiST land – South) to carry out a global consolidation of resources. Within the bounds of integration, under the general brand all the studios owned by GFI will be combined. The application of unified technical processes developed and successfully probe-tested at MiST land will be introduced as well.
This action is not the first but logical continuation of GFI’s policy, aimed at forming a strong unified brand, under which developers of PC games and mobile content will perform. For internal identification of a studio an appellation meaning its location or kind of activity will be added to “GFI”.
Thus, on the 1st of August, 2006 MiST land – South will function under a new name (will be announced in the nearest future) and thereby widen the line of GFI Mobile and GFI UA.
Furthermore, GFI is going to complete the forming of GFI Baltic and GFI Black Sea (the latter develops “Opposition 5”).
“During a three-year fruitful functioning, - Vyacheslav Plotnikov, GFI’s CEO comments, - we have managed to gather a great team of professional developers, localization managers, marketing managers, administrators and other game industry specialists. Integration of our studios under the general title and switch to the unified development technologies and working procedure organization – is one more step toward the creation of a large-scale stably running company.
“MiST land is one of the oldest developers in Russia”, - marks the GFI’s IT development senior manager and founder of MiST land – South Vitaly Shoutov. “We has been working with GFI for a long time, therefore the fusion took place last year was altogether logical. But nothing stands still and it’s time to make next step towards the creation of “Russian Electronic Arts”.
It only remained to add, that the title MiST land will be used at least twice again: for collection edition “ALFA:antiterror GOLD”, scheduled in Autumn, and a collection of all MiST land’s tactical games, devoted to the tenth anniversary of the studio, pre-arranged for December.
Game Factory Interactive
GFI was founded in 2003 by game industry professionals as a publisher and developer of games and entertainment programs for PC, fully focused on development and promotion of these products in the internal and international markets.
The goal is to create entertaining software products corresponding to the worldwide quality standards and also taking into account specific character and needs of different markets.
MiST land – South
MiST land – South was established in distant 1996. During 10 years out of a small team of associates it has turned into a flourishing company which has a whole number of successful projects such as “Paradise Cracked”, “Power of Low”, “ALFA:antiterror”, etc.
The company has excellently shown itself going in for localizations, being not once awarded by Russian printed and on-line magazines, including Gameland Award 2006 for the best localization for PC (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory”).
The main MiST land office is situated in Zelenograd, Moscow.
In Summer, 2005 GFI merged MiST land – South at that having organized on its basis a producers’ center, carrying out successful promotion of all PC projects, developed by GFI’s studios.
source : la newsletter de mist south