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Targem Games

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Website
  
eng.targem.ru

Type of business
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Yekaterinburg

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Industry
  
Interactive entertainment

Products
  
Hard Truck Apocalypse, Armageddon Riders, GearGrinder, MorphX (Xbox 360)

Founded
  
January 2002, Yekaterinburg, Russia

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Targem Games is a video game developer, based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Established in 2002, the company has created 9 PC games of various genres: from RTS/RPG to TPS and racing. The company received several awards at the Russian Conference of Game Developers (KRI), including “Best Debut”, “Best Game Design” and “Most innovative project”.

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History

  • 2002 - The company is founded. The first contract with Buka for the creation of Battle Mages is signed.
  • 2003 - Battle Mages - an original RTS/RPG mix - the very first game of the company is released in Russia. Later the game is localized into several languages including Chinese. The work on add-on and a new big project starts.
  • 2004 - Battle Mages is released in US, Europe and China. The Add-on to Battle Mages named Battle Mages: Sign of darkness is released in Russia.
  • 2005 - Hard Truck Apocalypse is released in Russia under the title Ex Machina and is a success there. Next year the game hits the stores of US
  • 2006 - Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans is released.
  • 2007 - ExMachina: Arcade and Day Watch are released in Russia
  • 2008 - The company acquires status of certified Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 developers. The Swarm is released in Russia. GearGrinder is released in Russia.
  • 2009 - for the first time the company is presented at the Game connection Europe.
  • GearGrinder is released world-wide.
  • Clutch is released world-wide. It is a first game of the company that can be bought via Steam.
  • 2011 - Targem games' first downloadable PlayStation 3 game Armageddon Riders was released on 2 June on PSN Targem Games not only developed but also self-published it.
  • In May a chess game entitled Battle vs. Chess developed by Targem games was released in Europe
  • 2012 - Targem games releases its second downloadable game for PlayStation 3 - Planets Under Attack in November. The game is also released on Steam and on XBLA with the help of Topware.

    • References

    Targem Games Wikipedia
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