GSC Game World achieves Xbox 360 developer status
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007It took over 2 years for the Kiev based GSC Game World to pass Microsoft’s rigorous program and become certified to be a Xbox 360 developer and the company is ecstatic.
The CEO of GSC Game World, Sergiy Grygorovych said:
“We are happy to say the big efforts of our company aimed to obtain the official Xbox 360 developer status now ended with success. Obtaining such a status for an independent developer based in ex-USSR means a lot - it took us over 2 years to get. We are very thankful to Microsoft for the assistance and high esteem of our team’s professionalism.
From now on, our old ambition to create multiplatform projects has become a reality. Such a policy is also fully compliant with the current game industry tendencies.
Creating games for PC, we achieved practically everything, and now are prepared to garner the top spots in sales charts and gamers’ recognition in the world of console games too. This said, we will continue paying maximum attention to the PC platform.”
GSC Game World is known for their projects are:
- Cossacks: The Art of War
- Cossacks: Back to War
- American Conquest
- American Conquest: Fight Back
- Alexander (Oliver Stone’s movie tie-in)
- Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
- Heroes of Annihilated Empires
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl
The company’s first success came with Cossacks: European Wars which was released in 2000. I am thinking the company will port over the Cossacks games for PCs to the Xbox 360 with some newer graphics.
From 1995-1997, the company was creating multimedia encyclopedias and edutainment programs. The company began focus on game technology and computer game development since 1997. It has only published PC based games to date.
GSC Game World was found in Kiev, Ukraine in 1995.