Earlier this week Paradox Interactive announced plans to release Lionheart: King's Crusade from developer NeoCore Games in 2010. We mentioned at the time that the game looked extremely similar to NeoCore's first game Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come which was released in Europe in 2008 and recently was made available in the US via Steam.

While we thought it was possible that the two games were the same with different titles we contacted the developer and publisher for more info. Paradox did not get back to us but NeoCore's PR head told Big Download, "It's not the same game at all. It will be much improved, bigger and nicer." The PR rep would not elaborate but we hope to get some more info on Lionheart in the near future.