Paradox Interactive's latest old fashioned strategy game now has a release date. The publisher announced that Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game will be released on March 29 via various download sites.

The game itself was developed by a team of mod makers from Paradox's own forum community who wanted to do something different with the Europa Engine that is the basis of the WWII strategy game Hearts of Iron II. The end result is this upcoming stand alone game that has a number of different campaigns from the start of the Great War to the beginnings of the unofficial Cold War. The game also has a redesigned map, better dipomacy features and an AI system that's "now able to react to hundreds of different situations simultaneously."