Host David Tractenberg holds the secret lock box of the evening in the Russian Consulate.
Russia’s biggest game publisher and developer, 1C, held an old-school Russian game party last night at the Russian Consulate in San Francisco, highlighted by flashing vodka shot glasses, sleek, blond women in bright yellow spandex and Russian hunting hats, and a wild assortment of Russian aperitifs.
And, oh yes, the games…
1C demoed eight fully playable games on the PC and Xbox 360, featuring the highly detailed aerial combat game, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, and Captain Blood, an artistically distinct hack-and slash pirate game based on the1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini and the subsequent movie starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
The full line-up included IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, and DS, Captain Blood on PC and Xbox 360, and on the remainder of games on the PC: Death to Spies (stealth action, due summer 2009), King’s Bounty: Armored Princess (RPG, due 2009), Majesty 2 — the Fantasy Kingdom Sim (RTS, due fall 2009), Men of War: Red Tide (RTS due summer 2009), Rig ‘n’ Roll (sim, due 2009), and XIII Century: Blood of Europe (strategy, due summer 2009).
The party, in full swing.
Jeff Haynes, working hard in Russian territory.
4 Comments
June 27, 2009 at 1:05 am
That looks like a shady place for an event. It seriously looks like a damp, dank basement. Was the air all sticky and humid? It sure looks like it would have been.
June 27, 2009 at 1:12 am
Haha. Funny you should say that. We were only in three actual rooms: The lobby, where we passed through a metal detector, a greeting or living room, where we had a few drinks, and then downstairs in what felt like either a giant storage room or a dance floor. Hard to tell. Either way, it seemed a little cramped, but it wasn’t hot or sweaty.
As for shady, it was on Russian ground, so…
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