"Buka" is a Russian fairy tale character that comes to children who wouldn’t sleep and steals them away. Our Buka steals kids away to the magic world of computer games.
Buka Entertainment is a thriving creator, publisher and distributor of first-rate PC games meant 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. Today Buka runs successful business activity in two main courses. One of them is producing and International Sales of titles developed in Russia. Another direction is acquisition and Publishing in Russia of products from foreign publishers.
Buka Entertainment achieved notable success with export sales of its high-grade titles created by best development teams in Russia. Buka’s solid professional team, as well as close and profound work with development crews on all stages of game creation provide fascinating implementation of the most challenging and large-scale projects. 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, ground-breaking video game titles to all major markets.
Buka is one of the leading publishers and distributors of video games in Russia. Recognized leaders of the world market choose Buka as their unfailing professional partner that invariably provides success of the games licensed for Russian distribution. Buka has strong and wide distribution network covering all Russian speaking territories of former USSR, uses smart policies and prudent multi-layer marketing. The company takes powerful anti-piracy measures, provides high quality localization and manufacturing and demonstrates professional approach to all aspects of game publishing. All these ensure the company’s great accomplishments on the Russian market.
Buka Entertainment was founded in 1994. With the main office in Moscow, it established 5 branch offices in the key important regions of Russia: Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod and Samara.
In 2005, Finam, the Investment Company, and EBRD NORUM, North-West and West Russia Regional Venture fund, invested in the development of Buka Entertainment by entering the nominal capital of the holding. Combined investor’s share in the holding amounts to 52.9%. Amount of transaction comes to several million dollars.
Today Buka grows impressively and conquers new markets. In 2006, the company started publishing activity in North America and entered co-publishing strategic alliance with CDV USA.
In 2007 Buka entered new business fields by opening two new divisions: BukaSoft that works with the multimedia products and BukaFilm that focuses on production, promotion and distribution of DVD movies in Russia.