Buka Entertainment And Leader SpA: Battle Mages Agreement

Battle Mages to come to Apennines

        Buka Entertainment, a European publisher based in Moscow, and Leader SpA, a foremost publisher in Italy, today signed a software licensing agreement regarding Battle Mages publishing and distribution.

        According to the agreement Battle Mages will be localized and distributed in Italy and the Italian speaking terrirories: Vatican, San Marino Republic, and the Swiss canton– Tichino.

        “We are happy  to announce that Battle Mages will be distributed by the best publisher - Leader,” emphasized Oksana Vovk, Sales Manager International for Buka. “Battle Mages have already come to many European countries, so now it's turn for Italy to welcome this game. We hope that it becomes popular with the gaming community in Italy!”

         “We’re very glad to continue our business with Buka Entertainment, and we think that Battle Mages is a great opportunity to generate satisfaction in all the RTS and RPG fans in Italy” – commented Massimo Giannelli, Business Unit Manager of Leader.

Battle Mages

        The game is designed as a Role Playing Strategy (RPS). The large fantasy World of the game is all-sufficient, each unit has its own behavior. Dynamic quest system contributes to high replayability of the game. Powerful 3d engine, dozens of towns and splendid landscapes will give you the unforgettable view of that vivid and lovely World as if you really lived there.           Spectacular magic effects and variety of spells will make you curious in getting more and more experience to gain new spells and watch, how they work.

        Multiplayer is represented by LAN opportunities allowing 4 players to participate simultaneously. Gamespy support for the Internet game.

About BUKA Entertainment

Buka Entertainment is a European publisher headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Since its foundation in 1994 and up to the present Buka has released more than 100 games both home-grown and localized, including made in Russia Fair Strike, Battle Mages and The Entente: World War I Battlefields.

Russian games produced by Buka became the internationally anticipated and recognized brands. Buka’s games came to 70 countries of the globe, such as the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, France, and Eastern Europe.

We signed our titles with more than 56 Publishers scattered around the world. Among them, we have names like Encore, Capcom, Acclaim, Cenega, Data Becker, JoWooD, Ubi Soft, and a number of smaller, but reliable and good partners as well, leaders in their respective territories.

        The recent years were flagged with the steadfast expansion of Buka’s direct sales operations spanning the Russian Federation and CIS countries through to Mainland China, where Buka will establish a subsidiary company in early 2004.

        For more information, visit www.buka.com. 

About Leader SpA

        The Leader Group is distributing games in Italy for more than 19 years representing a main actor of Italian videogames industry. During his evolution the group has been specialized in different companies which together or alone are offering ad-hoc services for all his clients with a "state of the art" quality standard. The areas that Leader Group covers: distribution, development and publishing, logistic services and online activities. Leader spa, with his headquarter in Gazzada Schianno (VA) has more than 100 persons to cover the over 3000 point of sale in the Italian territory.         For more information, visit www.leaderspa.it 

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