The connection between Kudos and the website (see below) suggests that most (if not all) translations were done by the studio and distributed by (or through) the website until its closure. Kudos also distributed modified games such as Raptors! Quake and Simpsons Doom II, both created by users on the internet and otherwise available for free (and quite certainly published without the authors' knowledge nor consent), as well as developing some homebrew/pirate original games for PS1, one of them being TetraSEX (a Tetris clone with erotic pictures and porn scenes, similar in concept to Twin Eagles Group's Sextris).Ī product catalog of dated January 2005 (Microsoft Excel file) includes games for the Sega Dreamcast and the Sony PlayStation, including "official" games, translations, and compilations, for a total of 1017 items available for sale. In addition to singular, translated games, Kudos has also released multiple pirate game compilations for both the PSX and the Dreamcast, which included multiple titles (usually a whole series) in one disc, with one of the smallest ones including 2 games in a single disc, and the biggest one including 9 games packaged in 3 CDs. In all years of them publishing disc-based games, Kudos' discs were professionally pressed with custom full color labeling, suggesting that they had access to a CD pressing plant. However, it is rumored that Kudos may have been returning to publishing games for the Mega Drive in the 2010s since some of the games also credit Kudos, although it's unclear if it's the same Kudos or another team/company that used the Kudos name. According to the owner of, one of the biggest internet CD and DVD shops that bought discs directly from Kudos and other unofficial companies, Koteuz left Kudos in 2004 soon after that, most of the team left Kudos and established their own unofficial company, Devil Soft. There is no exact information when Kudos stopped releasing games. For this reason, none of their PlayStation 2 releases had any information about them (except of the in-game copyright notices where the studio is credited as "KZ"), and their website () has disappeared from their games' covers. Kudos decided to continue work as an "unofficial" company. During this era, many unofficial teams decided to work officially, including GSC. During this period, somewhere in 2004, Kudos went underground due to the start of so called "anti-piracy war" in Russia. The third period started with the beginning of the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 era. For example, their release of 40 Winks used a translation that was alleged to be the translation created by Golden Leon. (aka Русские Версии) and Golden Leon (aka Golden Leon Interactive). Also, during this period, Kudos was accused of stealing translations, which originally were published by older companies, such as S.R.U. During this period, previous Red Station's translations were republished and some new were made. The second period started when Kudos cooperated with another unofficial publisher named Red Station, and soon they worked as one company. Games from this era can be distinguished with their blue covers. In the first era, Kudos primarily published Koteuz's translations, which were usually done by Koteuz.
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