Stronghold

SouthPeak Interactive has secured the rights to publish PC real-time strategy title Firefly Studios' Stronghold 3. Stronghold 3 is due for release on PC in 2011.

2K Games announced today that they will soon be releasing a bundle of five games from the PC real-time strategy series Stronghold. The Stronghold Collection will be released in North America on October 27th.

Today is the inauguration of a new American president and to honor the occasion, why not play a real-time strategy game set in eleventh century Europe? Alright, that might have been a bit of a stretch, but the point is, Stronghold is now available for purchase through Good Old Games.

Firefly Studios has told VideoGamer.com that it plans to start work on Stronghold Crusader 2 and Stronghold 3 after its new Xbox 360 and PC action game Dungeon Hero is released around spring next year. Speaking at a combined Stronghold Crusader Extreme/Dungeon Hero event in London recently, Firefly co-founder Simon Bradbury said that while the studio was not quite ready to deliver on Crusader 2, it will make the game, as well as Stronghold 3, in due course. Bradbury said: We've had a lot of people asking us for Crusader 2, but we're not quite ready to deliver on it yet. We love Crusader. I like playing that game myself a lot, it's my favourite one of the series. But we're not quite really there for it yet.

The combined sales of Guild Wars and its follow-up, Guild Wars Factions have exceeded two million units sold worldwide to date. Publisher NCsoft also announced that the NPD Group recorded Guild Wars Factions as May's number one-selling PC game for North America. It also topped the charts in Europe that same month. As a top seller for GameStop and EB Games, we watch with high interest how this property continues to make a stronghold for itself in the marketplace, said GameStop's Bob McKenzie, senior VP of merchandising.