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{{Infobox company
|name=GFI, Game Factory Interactive
|logo=Logo GFI wikipedia.png
|type=[[Private Company]]
|foundation=2003
|location_city=[[Nicosia]] (main office)
|location_country=[[Cyprus]]
|key_people=Vyacheslav Plotnikov CEO
|products=
|num_employees=<!--50 ([[2007]]){{cite neede}}-->
|homepage=[http://www.gamefactoryinteractive.com]
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'''Game Factory Interactive Ltd.''' ('''GFI''') is a Cyprus [[video game developer]] and [[Video game publisher|publisher]]. It was founded in 2003. In May 2008 GFI Russia and [[Russobit-M]] merged and became the [[BestWay group]],<ref>[http://news.softpedia.com/news/GFI-and-Russobit-M-Merge-Looking-for-New-Market-Segments-86097.shtml GFI and Russobit-M Merger Looking for New Market Segments] // Softpedia. May 21, 2008</ref> and in October 2008 [[Play Ten Interactive]] was incorporated into the group.<ref>[http://www.gfi.su/news.php?id=464&langid=2 Play Ten Interactive acquired by Bestway group] // GFI Official site</ref> The company published ''[[Cannon Fodder 3]]''.<ref name="eurogamer 3feb">Wesley Yin-Poole, [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-03-cannon-fodder-3-is-well Cannon Fodder 3 is… well…], [[Eurogamer]], Feb 3, 2012, Retrieved 15 July 2012</ref><ref name="rockpaper 2012">John Walker, [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/03/cannon-fodder-3-actually-happened-demo/ Cannon Fodder 3 Actually Happened, Demo], [[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]], Feb 3, 2012, Retrieved 15 July 2012</ref> In 2012 Game Factory Interactive focused on mobile game developing.

==Subsidiaries==

* ''[[GFI Baltic]]'' (closed in 2008)
* ''[[GFI Black Sea]]'' ([[Sochi]]) (closed in 2008)
* ''[[GFI Russia]]'' ([[Zelenograd]]) (Founded in 1996 as ''MiST Land South'', it was purchased by GFI in 2003 and renamed in 2006. It was closed in 2008.)
* ''[[GFI UA]]'' ([[Kiev]]), ex-[[3AGames]] (closed in 2008)
* ''[[GFI Mobile]]'' (mobile games and content), established in 2005 (closed in 2009)

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.gamefactoryinteractive.com/ Game Factory Interactive. Official website]

[[Category:Video game companies of Russia]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 2003]]
[[Category:Video game companies of Cyprus]]


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