[B]Syria is a country of approximately 22.0 million people, but it’s not often thought of as a center of game development.[/B]

While the country’s origins in game development are only about a dozen years old, the country has produced its fair share of videogames, the history of which are detailed in [URL=http://gameslatest.com/2010/04/09/videogames-vanguard-in-the-middle-east-part-1-%E2%80%93-syria/]an article on GamesLatest[/URL], penned by Syrian game developer Radwan Kasmiya.

Kasmiya pins the delay in Syrian game development taking off on “serious” Arab developers generally gravitating towards creating corporate applications in order to make ends meet. This situation, in turn, helped to foster Syria’s independent gaming community, of which Kasmiya was a member—he released a game called War 73 in 1999, which centered on the Arab-Israeli conflicts.

(Story courtesy of GamePolitics. Image is concept art from the game UnderAsh)

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