1C Company and 505 Games Launch New Label
 

505 Games today announced plans to significantly bolster their PC portfolio by signing a new deal with Russian games giant 1C Company to exclusively publish their PC games and to launch its new label, under the 1C Company brand across Europe. The agreement grants 505 Games European co-publishing rights in conjunction with 1C’s Western European team, 1C Publishing. 1C’s current range of titles falls under this new deal, as well as new games currently in development. The new label aims to reinvigorate the PC market with exciting, high technology titles being developed in Eastern Europe.
Working with the 1C Europe team, 505 Games will launch, promote and build the 1C brand across Europe. 505 Games will manage the marketing, PR, sales and distribution across the 1C Company range, including eagerly anticipated titles including Cyrostasis, NecroVisioN, and Death Track in the first cycle of launches. Over a dozen titles are scheduled for release in 2008.

The first PC titles from 505 Games and 1C Company are scheduled for a Q1 2008 release.

A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!

this really is good news.:P
So this deal covers all 1C games or just the new and the popular ones?
I'm interested in games like tomorrow war,dungeon cleaners,exodus from the earth etc.

All in all can't wait for Q1.

The deal covers alomost all recent titles by 1C. The announcements regarding particular titles are soon to follow.
Our aim is to bring as much 1C titles to gamers abroad as possible.

Ok now i know, they will not publish the kung fu game anymore.

Well, you can always write to our hotline about our games. Our support team is always ready to help you (support at 1cpublishing.eu).
As for The Kung-Fu, according to the contract, 505 Games publish our games, but not we publish theirs.

Oh, now you know it.)

This is good news, also removing the stress of finding a ready stable publisher from the stress of game development . Games should have a BOOST in development times now with more time focusing on development side , This is awsome .

Finally! Good luck on this venture to all!

505 Games published Queen's Gambit, the add-on for Armed Assault.

Yeah, they published Armed Assault itself also.

I thought Necrovision was supposed to be a late 2008 or even 2009 I think I read on some of the literature. Cryostasis needs to come out as soon as possible, I hope this actually do come out Q1-- no more delays please. :)

Will 505 also distribute IL-2, and when it comes SoW series? People are wondering what's going on. One (US)user was even denied to buy Sturmovik 1946 from UBI's US online store.
Did Ubisoft loose distribution rights?