Lesta Studio

Lesta Studio
Industry	Interactive entertainment
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Moskovsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Products	Pacific Storm Aggression: Reign Over Europe The Entente: Battlefields World War I Cannon Strike Insider Tales: the Secret of Casanova Elements of War
Parent	Wargaming
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Lesta Studio is a game developer based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lesta has launched eight titles in cooperation with Russian and international game publishers.

History

Lesta Studio was founded in 1991 providing digital graphics and multimedia solutions. Lesta later entered the advertising and postproduction markets, carrying out projects for film and TV postproduction. In 2003 Lesta entered the computer games market in cooperation with Buka Entertainment to launch its first game: The Entente: Battlefields World War I. In 2007 Lesta established a casual games department. In 2014, Lesta partnered with Wargaming to produce World of Warships, with the game being released in 2015.^[1]

Lesta Studio is located in Saint Petersburg. The studio contains two film editing rooms, a sound recording studio and a mini shooting pavilion.

The film department is the oldest in the studio and produces movies, TV commercials, visual effects production and organization of film making. Their works include:

9th Company: Roots of Terror - Real-time strategy (RTS) based on the 2005 film The 9th Company
Aggression: Reign Over Europe (2008) - RTS in a time period of 1910-1950.
The Entente: Battlefields World War I (2003) - strategy game set in World War I
Pacific Storm (2006) - Real-time strategy/Real-time tactics/Simulation set in World War II battlefields in the Pacific
Reign: Conflict of Nations (2009) - strategy game based on historical events of 1350-1650
Cannon Strike (2009) - RTS set in World War II battlefields
Cannon Strike 2: The Great War (2010) - RTS set in World War I battlefields
Time Machine: Evolution - Match three game
Insider Tales: The Secret of Casanova - hidden object game released at Big Fish Games, was in Top 10 for some time.
World of Warships (2015) - Together with Wargaming. Set in the Second World War featuring battles between warships.
Fright - hidden object game also released by Big Fish Games.

Pacific Storm received the Most Non-typical Project prize at the Russian Game Developer's Conference 2006.

Wargaming
Massive Assault series	Massive Assault (2003) Massive Assault Network (2004) Domination (2005) Massive Assault Network 2 (2006)
World of series	World of Tanks (2010) World of Warplanes (2013) World of Warships (2015)
Other games	Order of War (2009) Order of War: Challenge (2010) Excalibur (TBA)
Subsidiaries	Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore Wargaming Seattle Lesta Studio
Related	Wargaming.net Total Annihilation Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars

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