This week Paradox Interactive announced plans to release Lionheart: Kings' Crusade, a historical strategy game from developer NeoCore Games. However the game, which Paradox plans to release in the second quarter of 2010, looks very similar to NeoCore's first published title, Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come.

That game was released in Europe back in 2008 and was recently made available to US gamers via Steam download. Both games are set during the Crusades and screenshots from both titles also look very similar. So what's going on? We've emailed both Paradox and NeoCore Games to see if we can get all of this sorted out.