Elemental Games

Elemental Games was founded in December, 1999 as NewGame Software, a division of Degro, Ltd.{{cite web

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}} NewGame Software's first releases were the freeware turn-based strategy game The General and the desktop application Panels.{{cite web

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}} The company changed its name to Elemental Games in September, 2002.{{cite web

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|title=News

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}} Its second game, Space Rangers, was released in December, 2002, by 1C Company. The sequel Space Rangers 2 was published in November, 2004. Following the release of Space Rangers 2, most members of the Elemental Games staff, including director general Dmitry Gusarov, departed to form a new game development company, Katauri Interactive, which released version 2.0 of Space Rangers 2, called Space Rangers 2: Reloaded, in Russia on September 7, 2007.

On Dec. 29, 2009 the company started a beta test for a new browser-based game called "Empire". The game action takes place in a few years after events in Space Rangers 2.

"Disown way to global problems, the rulers of independent worlds, however, do not forget about their claims to the neighbors. As a result, some here and there began to appear local conflicts that plunged the inhabited part of the galaxy in chaos. Chaos, which spawned not only adventurers of all stripes, a new wave of piracy and the era of the superiority of force over the millennia-old laws, but a galaxy of colorful characters whose purpose was to combine disparate worlds into a single coalition."{{cite web

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|work = Elemental Games (official website)

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|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100317121343/http://elementalgames.com/

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{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070714032403/http://elementalgames.com/ Elemental Games] (official website)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070127071052/http://www.elementalgames.ru/forum/index.php?lang=eng Elemental Games Forum] (Space Rangers Forum)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070629074113/http://newgame.agava.ru/ NewGame Software] (official website)
• Russian Wikipedia page

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