Chaos Energy Group (ceg)

A long-running Russian outfit that surfaced in early 1998 and ran through 2001 as a full multi-format operation. The 2001 CEG (now "Chaos Energy Group") put out four major releases with a solid hirez roster and a tighter ASCII/ANSi crew. By mid-2001 the editorial was openly considering format consolidation, the kind of compromise that says everything about how the post-Soviet scene was balancing a small contributor pool against the format-multiplication trap. CEG is one of the more durable Russian projects of the late '90s / early 2000s, with serious roster depth and a genuine multi-format ambition. The fact that they kept it together for three+ years across format shifts is more impressive than any single pack.

first/last release: 1998/01 - 2002/06
years active: 1998 (10), 1999 (7), 2000 (4), 2001 (7)
(sub)packs released: 28
smallest/largest pack: ceg-014a/ceg-009
lifetime artworks: 455
lifetime lines: 9 587

average # of lines per artwork: 58
average # of artworks per pack: 18
longest serving member(s): ceg (1998/01-2001/01)
most productive member: ceg (54)
extensions: DIZ (2), EXE (2), ANS (54), ASC (92), JPG (230), PNG (11), GIF (25), HTM (5), NFO (2), ZIP (2)

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