Heroes of Annihilated Empires marches onto Steam
November 9, 2006 - Valve and GSC Game World, makers of the legendary Cossacks series and highly anticipated S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, today announce an agreement to make Chapter I of Heroes of Annihilated Empires trilogy game available to the 10 million gamers connected to Steam.
"We are very happy to start working with Valve to distribute our latest creation via this mighty online distribution platform. This agreement is an ideal compliment to our self-publishing start-up, and we look forward to forging a very fruitful relationship with Valve, both now and in the future," said Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO at GSC Game World.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires, an innovative and expansive new title from veteran game studio, GSC Game World, combines two of the industry's most popular genres - RTS and RPG. Players may take either a strategy or RPG-like approach to the single and multiplayer game modes, leveraging over 100 spells or commanding giant armies.
Steam is the only full-featured broadband platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content, and has pioneered its broadband services to over 10 million customers with core and casual games from today's leading publishers and developers.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires storyline was created by a renowned author Ilya Novak, and will be available via Steam on November 22, 2006 for $39.95.
For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
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About Steam
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About GSC Game World
One of the most renowned East-European game studios, GSC Game World is a successful developer of over 10 game releases now. The recently launched company subdivision GSC World Publishing takes care of publishing GSC's games worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.gsc-game.com