Strategy First, an international digital publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, and Nvinium Games announced a strategic relationship whereby Nvinium will develop and market new versions of Strategy First’s best selling franchises Space Empires and Jagged Alliance for social network platforms.  The initial deployment of these games will be as Facebook applications.

The original Space Empires released in 1993, has become one of the top 4X strategy games and has spawned four sequels.  The award winning series most recent iteration, Space Empires V, with completely updated UI takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe.  Space battles play out with incredible detail and realistic effects in a huge living and breathing galaxy.  The series has received countless recognition for its creativity, originality, and mod-friendly environment.  This series has maintained a very strong fan base of supporters and young developers who anxiously await each new game.

The original Jagged Alliance game was released in 1994 and has spawned five sequels.  The franchise title, Jagged Alliance, describes the cutthroat relationships between members of a lethal mercenary team whose only true allegiance is to the highest bidder.  Each a specialist in his or her own discipline, these operatives know that in order to survive their missions they must rely on but never dare trust each other.  The team is assembled from the best of the best by the Alliance of International Mercenaries, an apolitical private organization with its own covert agenda.  Jagged Alliance has a cult following with 1.5 million units sold since inception.

I have to go check these out and see if they’re worth all these words or not. The last time I wrote about one (Urban Wars) I was far from satisfied with it.