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SAGA Online

Deep Silver's free-to-play FPS launches in Europe today.

Hampshire, UK – October 5, 2010

 

Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, today announced the official launch of SAGA Online in Europe. Thus, the free-to-play real-time strategy game from Silverlode Interactive is now available to its full extent all over Europe as well.

 

English and German versions of  SAGA Online are provided for free download and play at www.playsaga.eu. Moreover, online players get to purchase SAGA Credits in the Deep Silver shop in order to obtain booster packs and premium items.

 

To celebrate the official launch of SAGA Online in Europe, Deep Silver greets every newly registered user with a powerful ice dragon as a welcome gift until October 10, 2010. Moreover, all existing players are given a booster pack, valued at 150 SAGA Credits.

 

The SAGA Online World is a traditional fantasy setting with characters like elves, orcs, dragons, dwarves and giants. In the free massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game, players create their own kingdom, battle or negotiate with each other and can cooperatively complete quests with friends in order to earn experience and loot. The free to play MMORTS SAGA Online offers, among other things, over 1000 quests as well as six fractions, each with its own unique units and individual playing style. SAGA Online features many of the success factors of massively multiplayer online games: thus there are guilds, raids, a live auction house for exchanging cards, equipment upgrades, collaborative team quests, looting of treasures and so on. This combines the game with real-time strategy features, like city planning, resource management and warfare. At the same time, SAGA Online, unlike many other real-time strategy games, is set in a persistent world that never rests – not even when the player logs off.

 

For more information, please visit www.playsaga.eu .

 

About Deep Silver

 

Deep Silver develops and distributes interactive games for all platforms.  The Deep Silver label means to captivate all gamers who have a passion for thrilling gameplay in exciting game worlds.  Deep Silver works with its partners to achieve a maximum of success while maintaining the highest possible quality, always focusing on what the customer desires.  Deep Silver products are designed to equally appeal to pros and beginners, children and adults.

Deep Silver has published more than 100 games since 2003, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the Chernobyl shooter, and the X series of space combat trading games.  Plus own brands like the action role-playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the Horse Life series of horse simulations, the survival horror game Cursed Mountain and the role-playing game Risen.  Furthermore, in March 2010 there followed the action adventure game adaptation of the popular TV series Prison Break on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. For more information please visit www.deepsilver.com

 

About Silverlode

 

Silverlode Interactive is a growing game studio outside Salt Lake City, Utah, founded by movie industry professionals. Silverlode’s flagship title, SAGA, is set to revolutionize RTS gaming.

 

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For further requests, or if you are interested in a SAGA Online partnership, e.g. a revenue share model, please contact: Rachel Phillips, Community and Online Entertainment Manager on R.Phillips@kochmedia.com or (0)1256 385 232.

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