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Gaijin Entertainment

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Budapest, Hungary
Key people	Anton Yudintsev (Founder)
Products	Video games
Number of employees	201-500 (2023)
Website	gaijinent.com

Gaijin Entertainment is a Hungarian video game developer and publisher headquartered in Budapest. The company is mostly known for War Thunder, Crossout, Star Conflict, CRSED: Cuisine Royale (formerly known as Cuisine Royale and CRSED: F.O.A.D.) and Enlisted.

History

Gaijin Entertainment was founded in Russia in 2002 by Anton and Kirill Yudintsev, whose first big project was the PC racing game Adrenaline. After the successful launch of War Thunder in 2012, an office in Germany was established, to manage global operations and marketing. The company moved their distribution business from Moscow to Budapest around 2015, and their development headquarters followed shortly after. According to Hungarian tax records, Gaijin had 42 employees in Hungary by January 2022 and 56 employees by January 2023.

Presently, all Gaijin online games are operated from Germany, Cyprus and Hungary, while the development is scattered across Europe. The company has now six offices in total: in Karlsruhe (Germany), Larnaca (Cyprus), Budapest (Hungary), Riga (Latvia), Dubai (UAE) and Yerevan (Armenia). The company has around 200 employees split between those offices, with 60 of them based at the Hungarian HQ.

Gaijin Entertainment group generated 2.6% of all the Hungarian Software Industry profit in 2020.

While Gaijin have produced a few single-player games in the 2000s, the company is now focused on free-to-play online titles. According to László Perneky, Gaijin's lead programmer, "Those who can decide on projects at the company mostly like to play multiplayer games".

Origin of company name

Gaijin Entertainment name comes from the Japanese word for foreigner. According to Anton Yudintsev, he was dreaming to enter the Japanese market one day while staying true to their roots as a European company and accept their position of an outsider there. Gaijin actually entered the Japanese market with the release of anime-style action game X-Blades in 2009.

Gaijin's logo features snail that is a reference to Issa Kobayashi's haiku, translated by R.H. Blyth as:

O snail

Climb Mount Fuji

But slowly, slowly!

(Katatsumuri / sorosoro nobore / Fuji no yama; 蝸牛/そろそろ登れ/富士の山)

Games

Dagor Engine

The Dagor Engine is an open-source game engine used by Gaijin Entertainment in War Thunder, Enlisted, CRSED: F.O.A.D. and other titles. It was open sourced under the BSD-3 license in 2023. The original version of the engine was developed by Gaijin Entertainment, and in 2005 the separate company Dagor Technologies was established for continued development. Currently the engine incorporates technology such as the PhysX physics engine and has been updated to version 6.5 since the release of War Thunder. Gaijin's Hungarian office is responsible for the further development of the engine.

Controversies

The company gained notoriety for Being A RUSSIAN OWNED COMPANY THAT WILL FOREVER BE A RUSSIAN LOVING POLITICAL PUPPET FOR THE RUSSIAN DICTATOR PUTAN.

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External links

• Official website

• Companies based in Budapest
• Video game development companies
• Video game publishers
• Video game companies established in 2002
• Video game companies of Hungary
• Video game companies of Russia
• Game engines that support Vulkan (API)