Firefly Studios has released an English demo for Stronghold Crusader Extreme. The demo contains three levels from the full game, all containing different difficulty levels. You can download it here.
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Developer Firefly are looking at an "early 2010" launch for the MMO, with a "much bigger beta" expected to arrive later this year. Much like the Stronghold series, Kingdoms will be strategic with players expanding their influence and dominion while managing research. Sieges, banquets, diplomacy, pillaging...
The Stronghold franchise will be re-releasing this month on the 27th as publisher 2K retails the Stronghold Collection, which includes all five titles. It's the castle siege wet dream. The real-time strategy games are all about protecting your masoned walls from dirty invaders, but what's more it'll be a DRM-free collection. It's only for the US for now, pity.
Firefly studios has announced that its latest project, the castle MMO stronghold Kingdoms, will be a free-to-play title. Stronghold Kingdoms is a unique MMO offering where players can fight, trade, farm and negotiate their way to success, aided by the carefully considered use of the game’s ‘strategy cards’ system.
The 5 million sales strong franchise of Stronghold will get a new instalment next year as SouthPeak reveal they're to publish for Firefly Studios. Stronghold 3 will be a "terrific addition" for SouthPeak's 2011 line-up, with the PC strategy game due in spring. No specifics on what has changed.
Publisher SouthPeak Interactive confirms studio Firefly is still putting Stronghold 3 together brick by brick, and that it'll be out early next year. The team is "pushing the boundaries" of the series and it has an "exceptionally broad appeal." Recent fiscal troubles are not an issue.
Speaking to Strategy Informer Simon Bradbury, head of Stronghold 3 developer Firefly said that he thinks that the industry today almost as flexible as it was twenty years ago. "There's been a lot of talk recently about digital distribution, Steam-only releases, MMO's, XBLA etc... as a developer there are multiple ways to market yourself. You can mix things up an do something with a publisher and then do your own stuff," he said.
You know a game must be just a little bit special if it allows you to choose which dead animal to fling in-game. In fact just being able to fling dead carcasses everywhere is a bit win. Firefly Studios, the guys behind the classics castle-building RTS series Stronghold, as well as the sadly suspended Dungeon Hero, is launching a competition that will allow gamers to pick the last 'type' of dead animal carcass ammo to use with its siege weapons.
The latest fiscal from SouthPeak Games shows their Q2 losses and revenue are both down from the same period in 2009. Stronghold is in their 2011. Net revenue was at $7.5 million and losses posted at $2.1 million for Q2, which ended December 31st. SouthPeak has won back the My Baby franchise.
SouthPeak Interactive has announced today that a delay for Stronghold 3 has been put in place to move the release date back to this summer. The publisher assures us that this delay was made to ensure that Stronghold 3 includes a host of great new features. "We want to make sure fans get the game they want and deserve," said Stronghold 3's designer Simon Bradbury. "Although some may be disappointed the game isn't coming out as soon as they expected, we’re sure they won’t be disappointed with the new elements we’re adding to the franchise, to make this the best Stronghold yet."
505 Games and Reverie World Studios have released a new developer diary for Dawn of Fantasy that shows the Stronghold Defense mode featured in this upcoming MMORTS for the PC. Stronghold Defense, the defensive counterpart of the Lay Siege skirmish mode, gives players the opportunity to practice defending a prebuilt stronghold in a quick-paced skirmish...
Well, this is an odd turn of events. Information released today has announced the formation of a new, possibly digital-focused games publisher named 7Sixty, who is also now the new publisher of castle-building strategy game, Stronghold 3.
Publisher 7Sixty thanks digital marketplaces because it's kept the long running PC series Stronghold alive and well, and the retailed Stronghold Collection too. Online markets have meant "new audiences are still discovering" the castle building and sieging strategy. Excluding spin-offs, Stronghold has cleared 5m copies.
Southpeak has posted the second Stronghold III developer diary, which focuses on the physics involved with the game. Not only does it make the game feel more real, but it allows for some procedural comedy such as archers topping off walls.
Southpeak Interactive has announced that the long-awaited city building, castle defense game Stronghold 3 has gone into gold master status and is on target for its release on October 25 on PC.
So, who do you think won Novemember? We'll tell you...
A new patch has been released for Stronghold 3, which can be automatically updated through the Steam client. The patch basically fixes some of the gameplay bugs such as walls vanishing and troops falling through map holes.
Firefly Studios has announced that the 1.9 multiplayer patch has been released for Stronghold 3, which fixes multiplayer and adds all-new units to the game including Siege Towers and Laddermen.
Firefly Studios has announced that their free-to-play MMORTS Stronghold Kingdoms has hit the 500,000 registered players milestone. The 500,000th player registered just as "World 4" server opened today, which was just a few days after the World 3 server had opened on the 3rd March. Passing this milestone has put Firefly halfway to their goal of achieving one million registered players.
Firefly Studios has announced that the Gold Edition of their castle strategy game, Stronghold 3, will be hitting on the 25th May for PC and Mac. The Gold Edition contains all of the downloadable content and patches released to this point. The game will include the three core campaigns along with the new Blackstaff Campaign, four multiplayer modes including a new Coronation Mode, a sandbox mode and 12 historical sieges.