Stranger Goes Gold @ GamersHell

We've followed this title for it's RPG claims, and now GamersHell posts a press release from Fireglow Games announcing that their action RPG/RTS hybrid, Stranger, has gone gold and is scheduled to ship for N.A. on March 3. The game is already out in Europe.
Here's the description:

RPG blended with the best elements of RTS coming to North America
cdv Software Entertainment USA today announced that Stranger, the RPG/RTS game developed by Fireglow Games and now available in Europe, has been approved for manufacturing and will hit the store shelves across North America on March 3rd. Stranger features three main heroes and many units to choose from, over 100 different monsters, unique and flexible magic system, great variety of items and gear, more than 30 hours of single-player campaign, multiplayer with up to 8 players, and more.

The single player demo in a variety of languages can be found here, and there is a multiplayer demo as well.More information.

Stranger seems to be distributed by Koch Media in Germany, not CDV.

Which is weird, because CDV is originally a German company.

Today I read that there's already a patch out;

new Version number is 1.2, size 53 MB, the patch contains a fix for NVidia-based cards (8800), and contains a new multiplayer-map "Rivers of Kront" that was formerly available with the MP-DEmo, the article says.

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Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
Stranger seems to be distributed by Koch Media in Germany, not CDV.

Which is weird, because CDV is originally a German company.

CDV is no longer a classic publisher. They΄ve redefined themselves as an independent service provider for everything needed to bring a game onto the shelf. They even say they are the only truly independent full-service provider on the German market. Just read the last couple of PRs about their restructuring.
CDV has hardly 1/10th the size of Koch Media. It΄s easy to guess that guaranteed money by Koch is a good reason to partner with them instead of shouldering the risk (almost) alone by going through CDV. Koch certainly has at least as much market penetration in Germany and much more in the rest of Europe.

I see. And no, I haven't read their latest PR sheets.

Here is the link for multilingual patch v1.2

http://games.internode.on.net/fileli…edetails=15464

The patch is cumulative, so you don't need to install v1.1 before installing v1.2