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King’s Bounty: The Legend has shipped to retailers in North America and is now available for the suggested price of $39.95. Developed by Katauri Interactive, published by 1C and distributed by Atari, King’s Bounty: The Legend is a tactical turn-based RPG set in a fairytale fantasy world, populated with knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses. The player controls one character, leading him through the gameworld, exploring it, commanding armies in battle and accomplishing various quests.

The game progression falls into two separate parts – Adventure and Combat. In adventure mode, the player controls the character in real-time, taking him through the adventure map seeking treasure, and completing challenges. In combat mode, the player takes on the role as warchief, leading their troops through battle in a chess-like format.

Look for the game in stores beginning today or buy it online by visiting GamersGate.

Digital distribution portal GamersGate has released King’s Bounty – The Legend and Dark Horizon, both for the PC. King’s Bounty - The Legend was developed by 1C Company and features strategy RPG action based on the classic game King’s Bounty (which was the precursor to Heroes of Might & Magic). Dark Horizon from Paradox Interactive is a space action-adventure that offers space combat and plenty of ship customizations.

Both are available directly from www.gamersgate.com.

Funcom, like Blizzard, has its eye on the Russian MMO market. The company announced that it has teamed up with 1C Company to bring Age of Conan to Russian speaking territories. Under a freshly signed service partnership agreement, 1C Company will fully localize voice and text within the game, and operate local customer service, communities, websites and in-game support for Age of Conan in Russian. Funcom will still handle all the backend services, technology, server infrastructure and development of the game. A dedicated Russian realm will also be created.

The Russian version of Age of Conan is set to be rolled out in the fourth quarter.