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.