[lbo-talk] Bearzilla! -- Putins Economy Eight Years On

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Wed, August 15, 2007 8:26 pm, Max B. Sawicky wrote:


> Does Russia product anything else
> that the rest of the world -- or Russians -- want to buy?

World-class videogames, e.g. TimeShift, created by a St. Petersburg
studio. IGN has an interesting article on this:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/811/811677p1.html

First-person shooters are ferociously difficult to program, so creating
something with production values this high shows that the Bear can run
with the Big Dogs.

-- DRR