Nekki

29/07/2026

Nekki Team — Nikita Korzhavin, CBDO

Games are usually seen through trailers, updates, numbers, and launch milestones. Players see collaborations, new platform releases, and major announcements. But behind each of them are months of conversations, negotiations, and coordination that rarely make the headlines.

For the second episode of our series, we talked to Nikita Korzhavin, Business Development Director, about what business development really involves.

23/07/2026

We’re at the final stage.

And the news you’ve been waiting for is coming soon.

But what did it take to get here?

22/07/2026

We’re an independent studio behind Shadow Fight and Vector, and we’re building our first PC and console action game with Gun Fu and freeflow combat in a cyberpunk setting:

• Play as Redline, a street artist trying to save her brother
• Fight through a city ruled by an AI dictatorship, social ratings, propaganda, and inequality
• Coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch 2

It’s called SPINE. Would you play this?

17/07/2026

Shadow Fight 3 is today’s Game of the Day on the App Store across the CIS, EU, and UK!

02/07/2026

05/06/2026

Nekki Team: Ep. 1

Games are usually seen through trailers, updates, numbers, and launch milestones. But behind all of that are people making hundreds of decisions players may never notice.

We’re starting with community, because games are made for people: the ones who play them, talk about them, come back to them, and keep them alive after release.

We spoke with Artur Ovchinnikov, Head of Community, about what that work really involves.

02/06/2026

Cascadeur tested live by Grant Abbitt

Grant Abbitt invited Max Makishi from the Cascadeur team to put Cascadeur through a real-time animation challenge. At one point, Grant asks to turn a jump into a somersault. His own reaction: “That might be really tough.”

And Max did it anyway.

The video is a live, unedited look at Cascadeur’s workflow in action, with useful tips along the way for animating faster and iterating on movement.

Watch the full video:

Is Cascadeur truly the future of character animation, or is it just another "game-changing" buzzword? In this video, I wor...

28/05/2026

SPINE is getting closer

We’ve officially entered the final stages of development on SPINE, our first PC and console title.

21/05/2026

We’re hiring a Senior Linux System Administrator 🎮

Shadow Fight, SPINE, Vector - together, our games have passed 1 billion registered users worldwide. That kind of scale needs serious infrastructure behind it, and we’re looking for someone who can help keep it stable, reliable, and ready to scale.

Bonus points for experience with Docker, ZFS, Zabbix, Grafana, and CI/CD.

🔹 Senior Linux System Administrator: https://nekki.com/vacancy/linux-system-administrator/

If you like automation, clean systems, and infrastructure that stays uneventful for all the right reasons, we’d like to hear from you!

22/04/2026

Nekki × PlanetPlay – Let’s save dugongs and cockatoos together

We’ve teamed up with the award-winning PlanetPlay and their Battle for the Habitats campaign. Through this initiative, funds go directly to protecting endangered species – dugongs and cockatoos.

Together, we want to help make a real impact for the planet – and you can be part of it just by playing our games: Shadow Fight 3 and Shadow Fight 4: Arena.

Special in-game events are already live and will run until June 3. Start this battle today!