Buka Announces The Swarm

MOSCOW, August 10, 2007 - Buka Entertainment today announced that The Swarm, brand new 3D Action / Adventure game is in production at Targem Games.

What we saw in the movies finally happened. Science-fiction became reality and everybody could see how huge spaceships landed over the main capitals of the world. Aliens attacked at once, killing millions of humans in mere seconds. The governments of the Earth answered to the attack with nuclear weaponry, in a desperate movement for destroying the aliens, at the cost of the planet itself.

The aliens survived, the Earth became a wasteland, and the sewers, the subway and the basements became the only havens for the remains of humans, which gathered into small groups and gangs in order to survive.

The Swarm is a 3D adventure game, full of action on 3rd view where the player will face the challenge of surviving in a wasted Moscow that shows the scars of the alien attack, defending himself from the attacks of other humans looking for a piece of food, and from the dangerous aliens.

Key Game Features:

• The main character, though starting as a normal human, will be able to assimilate alien skills and characteristics, that will make him more and more powerful to defend himself, though at the cost of his humanity and mental sanity. Develop your character as you wish, choose the alien skills freely, or keep him free of them and focus on the weaponry.
• Face huge enemies and bosses, tall as a building which can kill you with a single hit.
• Real Moscow shown, under the effects of the alien catastrophe… Fight in the demolished Red Square… defend yourself at the doors of the Kremlin of a 50m-tall alien.

About Buka Entertainment Buka Entertainment is a creator, publisher and distributor of first-rate PC games destined for worldwide distribution. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, it also runs publishing activity in North America and has strong partnerships with the leading companies around the globe. Founded in 1994, Buka Entertainment is the first Russian game making company to become an international brand and to create its own international distribution network. Titles produced by Buka were licensed for publishing and distribution in 70 countries and localized to 15 languages. Among them are Hard Truck series, Fair Strike, Battle Mages, Echelon, The Entente and Pacific Storm. Buka constantly expands product line-up and aims at bringing high-grade, revolutionary video game titles to all major markets. For more information, please visit www.buka.com.

About Targem Games Targem Games, founded in 2002, is based in Ekaterinburg, Russia. With a team of 40, Targem has produced three major PC titles and several add-ons to them: Battle Mages series, Hard Truck: Apocalypse and Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans, Day Watch, Ex Machina: Arcade. Some games of the company were released not only in Russia, but also in Europe, Asia and USA. The projects of the studio received awards at the Russian Conference of Game Developers and were acclaimed both by press and gamers. The team is currently working on the Action/Racing Sledgehammer and two unannounced projects.