As of December 2012, the other 1C's developer is 1C Game Studios, formed after association with video game developer 777 Studios, mostly known for developing and releasing the 2009 Rise of Flight simulator.
This led in December 2017 to the release of a new version of the game (named Cliffs of Dover BLITZ) and in August 2020 to the first add-on in the second generation of IL-2 games: IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings – Tobruk.
In 2012 a group of volunteers named " Team Fusion" took over Maddox Games and started working on Cliffs of Dover, fixing bugs and improving the game.
Different games of the series cover different theaters of World War II, including the Eastern Front, the Western Front and the Pacific theater. The series covers a number of flyable aircraft of Soviet, German, American, British, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czechoslovak, Polish and other origins. Thus, 1C Company currently owns the IL-2 Sturmovik label and runs three different accumulated generations of IL-2 games (three generations of IL-2 games have been established as three different game engine stages have been developed since 2001).Īlong with its sequels, IL-2 Sturmovik is considered one of the leading World War II flight simulators.
Since 2012, 1C's new developers are 1C Game Studios (who develops the Great Battles series of simulation games) and Team Fusion Simulations (who develops the Dover series of simulation games). IL-2 Sturmovik ( Russian: Ил-2 Штурмовик) is a series of World War II combat flight simulation video games originally created in 2001 by Russian video game developer Maddox Games under the brand name 1C:Maddox Games, following its association with 1C Company.