Buka Entertainment
Type	Close corporation
Founded	1993
Location	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Key people	Alexander Mihailov (President)
Industry Industry Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...	Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... , Video games Computer and video game industry The video game industry is the economic sector involved with the development, marketing and sales of video games...
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Buka Entertainment (Russian: Бука) is a Russia

Russia

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n software development and distribution company founded in 1993 in Moscow with an additional six branch offices across Russia, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

, Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

, Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...

, Samara

Samara, Russia

Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...

 and Nizhniy Novgorod. Buka Entertainment is primarily engaged in the development of titles for the Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 platform, but also distributes third-party titles produced within Russia for the same platform and handles the distribution of many titles produced outside of Russia for the Russian market. Buka has a wide distribution network covering most of the CIS.

In 2005, the investment company Finam

Finam

Finam is a village development committee in Gorkha District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,993 and had 580 houses in the town....

 and EBRD NORUM, North-West and West Russia Regional Venture fund invested in the development of Buka Entertainment.

In 2007, Buka opened two new divisions - BukaSoft, which was formed with the intention of distributing the multimedia products and BukaFilm, which focused on the production, marketing and distribution of DVD movies within Russia.

Buka Entertainment was acquired by Russian developer and publisher 1C Company

1C Company

1C Company is one of the largest independent Russian software developers and publishers. Its headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. It is best known outside of the former Soviet Union as a video game developer whose presence has come to dominate events like the KRI, and whose products have begun to...

 in 2008.

External links

• Buka Entertainment website
• Buka Entertainment entry at MobyGames
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  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...