It's now official. The well known German-based game developer Ascaron Entertainment has now closed its doors completely. The company, best known for the action-RPG games Sacred and it's recent sequel Sacred 2, declared bankruptcy a few months ago and recently sold off much of their assets to Kalypso Media. The final blow was apparently made late last week as Ascaron's Studio 2 was also shut down, according to a message board post on the Sacred web site.

So what about the previously announced plans for a Sacred 2 add-on, title Ice and Blood? According to the message board post, "The Addon (PC version) is almost finished, a hand full of devs are still there and will work at the last bits required." The plan is for Deep Silver to publish the add-on in Germany in late August but there's no word yet on a US release for Ice and Blood.

[Via Blue's News]