Stronghold 3 still alive

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 12 August, 2010

Coming first quarter of 2011.

Publisher SouthPeak plans to release Firefly's castle-building game Stronghold 3 early next year.

In a press release sent out this morning the publisher said Stronghold 3 "will be released globally for Windows PC in the first quarter of 2011".

"Stronghold 3 is an extremely impressive addition to our continually growing portfolio," said Melanie Mroz, SouthPeak's CEO.

"We believe that Stronghold 3 will be an important growth driver for SouthPeak and that the Stronghold brand will benefit from our proven distribution, sales and marketing expertise.

"FireFly Studios are creating a true masterpiece, pushing the boundaries of what can be expected in this type of game.

"Millions of existing fans are sure to be excited by this incredible leap forward and new fans will be introduced to a game of superior quality and exceptionally broad appeal."

Last month CDV took action against SouthPeak for alleged non-payment of bills, sending bailiffs to take over 40,000 games from SouthPeak, and freezing a payment to the publisher from distributor Centresoft in the hope of redirecting it to CDV.

However, Eurogamer has been reliably informed that the release of Stronghold 3 is still going ahead exactly as planned.

Some nice new Stronghold screens are below.

Picture of Wesley.

About Wesley Yin-Poole

Wesley is Eurogamer's news editor. He likes news, interviews, and more news. He also likes Street Fighter more than anyone can get him to shut up about it.

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  • Shinetop #1 2 years ago

    Never got around to playing Stronghold for some reason. Are the first two games still any good or should I just wait for S3?

  • J0rdan_KZ #2 2 years ago

    @Shinetop - It's been a long, long time since I played Stronghold 1, but it's very much like Civ in terms of a hell of a lot going on at any one time. You have to mine resources, then process them before they can be used as raw materials, then they are crafted into other materials.

    It's a lot of fun if you like heavy resource management. I skipped the second one, for some insane reason. Probably pick this one up though!

  • EgbertoTheGreat #3 2 years ago

    Hope Stronghold does well, nice chaps at Firefly.

  • Bleemo #4 2 years ago

    Stronghold 1 is worth a crack considering you can get it for next to nothing at GOG, the single player campaign is actually quite cool.

    http://www. gog.com/en/gamecard/stronghold

  • makeamazing #5 2 years ago

    You can get the stronghold series on Steam, there was a summer sale which was a very good deal.. .dont know what it is currently, but worth checking out.

    I already had most of the games (except legends) on CDROM, but when the sale came around, i just purchased all again (love to support Firefly Worlds).

    See they are keeping with the 3D, hope its better than SH2 3D, which couldnt compete with the fantastic SH isometric. Still this will be on my top PC buying list along with Total War. Cant wait :D

  • Quickstick4 #6 2 years ago

    Looking forward to this!

  • Shinetop #7 2 years ago

    €29 on Steam... Way too much as usual. I'll grab the first one at GoG, thanks guys!