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> I'm surprised there aren't more games studios in Asia and Eastern Europe Aren't they? > Belarus still relies on state-run manufacturers and Soviet-era colle
by snaky 8y ago
> I'm surprised there aren't more games studios in Asia and Eastern Europe
Aren't they?
> Belarus still relies on state-run manufacturers and Soviet-era collective farms. The European Union prefers not to buy food from those farms because one-fifth of Belarus was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Video games, however, are another matter, as are mobile phone apps and software products. All these are being produced in a drab industrial park on the northeastern outskirts of Minsk, an unlikely but booming high-tech hub.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-belarus-tech-boom-20180928-story.html http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-belarus-tech-boom-...