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King's Bounty: The Legend scored 93% and received the Editor's Choice Award on the top Russian gaming website AG.ru. "One will never want to leave from King's Bounty. It is impossible to spend just half an hour each day playing this game, because it takes you to bright fairy tale which is full of adventures. There were no such cozy and pleasant games for many years." You can find the whole review in Russian here.

Screenshots showing new features of Men of War are published in the Gallery of the game. You can find the pictures and their description here.

One of the leading Russian specialized magazines, PC Games, has published a cover story review on King’s Bounty: The Legend. The game scored 9.5 out of 10, received the Editor's Choice Award and was characterized as "a fabulous, heartfelt, high-grade project… Probably the game of the highest quality that ever came from Russia". "Special effects are splendid: every time your character casts a new spell on the battlefield that is simply amazing!"- adds the author. You can find the inside of the review (in Russian) here.

4x4: Hummer has been chosen as the Best Simulation Game at Gameland Award 2008 that was held in Russia, Moscow on April, 19. All the awards in this ceremony are based upon the people’s choice. 4x4 Hummer is an off road driving simulation where players can test drive a range of General Motors’ sports utility vehicles (SUV’s) across challenging and exciting locations including the Grand Canyon, Crimea, Egypt, Iceland and many more.

First details from Majesty 2, the game that is being produced by 1C and developed by 1C’s internal studio 1C:Ino-Co, are published on Gamespot. The interview uncovers the importance of keeping of the original Majesty’s atmosphere, the biggest and most important enhancements of Majesty 2 and other aspects of managing the kingdom full of unique characters. Please find full text of the interview here.

King’s Bounty scored 9.5 out of 10 in a review published on CRPG.ru. «The player finds himself immersed into the atmosphere of the game from the very beginning. This is a feeling of being in the real fairy tale», - says the review. «King’s Bounty: The Legend is an absolutely unique game, a true drug that simply can’t leave you insensible.» Full review in Russian can be found here.

The adventure saga King's Bounty: The Legend – the highly-anticipated new game from Katauri Interactive and 1C Company became the absolute winner at the Awards Ceremony during KRI 2008 (Russian Game Developer's Conference) that was held in Moscow on April 18-20. The game has won the following prizes: KRI 2008: Best game, KRI 2008: Best role-playing game, KRI 2008: Best game design, KRI 2008: Audience choice award. General Director of Katauri Interactive, Dmitry Gusarov, has also received the KRI 2008: Award from the Press. See the prizes here.

1C Company's internal studio 1C:Ino-Co, the developers of renowned Fantasy Wars, is now working on a Majesty sequel which is scheduled for release next year. Majesty 2 – The Fantasy Kingdom Sim will focus on reinventing many aspects of the original game while bringing the brand into the 21st Century. A key element that will permeate the game is the charming atmosphere and sense of humor of the original Majesty.

The first UFO: Afterlight patch created outside of ALTAR is now available for download. It fixes a number of bugs and removes the copy protection.

The Carpathian Crosses team are releasing the Beta version of their new mod for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. This mod brings the next new nationality to the game - the Romanians, who provided the single largest contingent of Axis troops on the Eastern Front, after the Germans themselves. The player will get to experience a completely unique setting, that has never been done before! On top of that, they are also adding the famous Russian Black Sea Naval Infantry - the "Black Death". The mod features new maps, new models, new vehicles and weapons including the first playable mortars and you can download it here.

Digitalmindsoft, the co-developers of Men of War, made a detailed description of new game features including aiming system, the mode of displaying units and choosing an advantage-position for soldiers. You can check it all it on DMS forum. New screenshots from Men of War are also published in the Gallery. Please find them here.

One of the leading German videogames magazines PC Games published review about XIII Century: Death or Glory. The game scored 73 out of 100% and was marked for its unique historical background and great variety of beautiful scenes. You can find the whole review and screenshots from XIII Century here.

XIII Century: Death or Glory is characterized as a game with deep, challenging battle mechanics featuring a wide range of historical battles from the entire 13th century. Attention to battlefield detail and smart AI makes XIII Century a serious real-time tactical challenge. You can read the whole review and find out more about what was happening in the XIII Century here.

Each nation in Men of War gained its individuality according to the realities of the WWII. They have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the balance is not reached by a contraposition of similar fighting units but by the relation of price and efficiency. At the same time, the game principle "stone, scissors, paper" is retained in order to exclude the absolute superiority of game units. You can find screenshots representing Russian, German, US and British Commonwealth parties here.

New screenshots from Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason are published in the Gallery section. Cryostasis is a first-person shooter set in a forsaken nuclear ice-breaker, frozen in the ices of North Pole many years ago. Alex Nesterov, the game's main character, has to fight the cold and find out what happened on the ship. You can find the screenshots here.

New set of screenshots from the Soviet Campaign of Men of War is published in the Gallery of the game. You can see them and read a detailed description here.

GamingXP website published review about Fantasy Wars game, which scored 81 out of 100. Please find the review in German here.

1C Company and 1C: Ino-Co are happy to announce the winners of the Fantasy Wars US Tournament. To find out the results of the Tournament and watch the mission's walkthrough video made by the winner of a fully custom-painted Fantasy Wars PC case name please proceed to the Fantasy Wars Official Website.

Seven new screenshots from Men of War are published in the Gallery of the game.

Theatre of War 845 Megabyte sized free patch can be downloaded from here. This patch only works for "Theatre of War" version distributed by Kalypso. Map editor and mission-campaign editor are included in this patch, apart from other new features.