VG Entertainment Ltd (formerly Vostok Games) is a Ukrainian

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based in

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. The company was founded in March 2012 by former employees of

GSC Game World GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv with a second temporary office in Prague. Founded in Kyiv in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych, it is best known for the ''Cossacks (video games series), Cossacks'' and ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.' ...

, including Oleg Yavorsky, after GSC had been shut down. The company developed the

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''Fear the Wolves'' (2019) and is working on '' Survarium'', a

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shooter game in

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since 2015.

History

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

. Following the closure, Oleg Yavorsky, who had been GSC's

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manager, and several other former GSC employees set out to create a game on their own. They contacted several investors in Ukraine and Russia, but none had a large enough budget to fund the development of a game on the same scale as '' 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

multiplayer

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for

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s. 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

. In September 2013, Vostok Games employed 40 former GSC employees in these offices. Yavorsky acts as the studio's marketing manager. Vostok Games' first project became '' Survarium'', which it released into

in 2015. It also created ''Fear the Wolves'', a

set in

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, in 2019. In March 2022, shortly after the start of the

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, Vostok Games put the development of ''Survarium'' on hold to ensure that its developers were safe. In July 2023, the company rebranded as VG Entertainment and announced that it was working on a new game.

Games developed

References

External links

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