One of the more interesting strategy-sim game series is coming back via a new publisher and a new developer. Kalypso Media announced today that their have aquired the rights to the Tropico PC game franchise from publisher Take Two Interactive. Kalypso intends to release Tropico 3 this summer which will be developed by Haemimont Games.

At the moment details are scarce on Tropico 3 other than it will be based on the first game in the series released in 2001 by Take Two's now defunct Gathering of Developers brand and developed by the now defunct Poptop Software. That game had the player controlling a Caribbean island country as a dictator type in the present day (the second Tropico game, released in 2003, switched the game's premise to being a pirate in the Caribbean in the 18th century). Kalypso did say the game would have "...state-of-the-art graphics, complex gameplay similar to the other titles in the series and a comprehensive multiplayer mode."