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New Legends of Pegasus details and screens revealed

by: Travis -
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The 4X sub-genre of strategy games have always been a personal favorite for allowing gamers to explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate to their will. Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Novacore Studios have released an assortment of new details concerning their upcoming 4X strategy game set in space, Legends of Pegasus. In the game, players will be able to explore and colonize planets, battle enemy forces, design starships, and command fleets of spacecraft. The narrative will allow players to control each of the game's three races, including the Humans, X’or, and Arthrox. In addition to the extensive single-player narrative, gamers can rule the galaxy in skirmish or multiplayer modes. Multiplayer supports gameplay over LAN and online connections.

Legends of Pegasus will be available this summer for Windows PC.

Learn More about "Legends of Pegasus" in New Game Overview and Screens

Ridgewood, NJ, May 9, 2012 –  Kalypso Media and Novacore Studios are today taking gamers into deep space, with a newly released game overview and screenshot pack for Legends of Pegasus, their upcoming 4X space strategy title. In Legends of Pegasus, players will command the last remnants of the Human race as they explore space in a quest to colonize new worlds, expand the human empire and defend themselves from (or exterminate) alien aggressors.  An extensive single-player campaign, coupled with robust multiplayer options, will keep players engaged with their space fleets for countless hours. Download the new game overview for a more in-depth look at Legends of Pegasus, which Kalypso will release in North America for Windows PC in summer 2012. 

For more information, please visit www.legendsofpegasus.com or www.facebook.com/LegendsofPegasus

In the 23rd century, mankind made tremendous progress colonizing the vast extents of space. Man built huge spaceships, colonized new planets and even used terraforming to transform uninhabitable worlds. Soon, new races were also discovered. The first contact was friendly and peaceful. But peace can be deceptive…

Legends of Pegasus takes you to an epic journey into space and mixes real-time and turn-based strategy. Players will expand their civilization in the galaxy by colonizing new planets, building factories, laboratories and shipyards, researching new technologies and designing new spacecrafts to keep on exploring new galaxies. Battles are played real-time and decided not only by your tactical skills, but also by your strategic decisions and the design and equipment of your ships.

Legends of Pegasus offers a massive single player campaign, during which the player will discover three very different races. Multiplayer features Internet or LAN gameplay, against Human or AI opponents. If you like designing your own game yourself, numerous modding options will certainly make you all the happier. The spectacular 3D graphics don’t just bring life to marvelous planets, but also to the stunning spaceships you can freely design thanks to an intuitive building system.

About The Kalypso Media Group

Founded in 2006 in Germany by industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalypso Media is a global, independent developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment software with 120 employees world-wide.

Along with Headquarters in Worms, Germany, the company has offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.  Kalypso Media also enjoys very strong global digital distribution through its Kalypso Media Digital Ltd. Subsidiary, and owns three development studios – Realmforge Studios GmbH, Gaming Minds Studios GmbH and Noumena Studios GmbH – and works with multiple leading independent developers.

Kalypso Media‘s titles include the critically acclaimed Tropico 4, Sins of a Solar Empire, Dungeons and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. Upcoming multi-platform titles include The Dark Eye – Demonicon and Port Royale 3, along with Legends of Pegasus and Omerta – City of Gangsters for PC. Further information about Kalypso Media is available at http://www.kalypsomedia.com.