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Dawn of Discovery: Venice, the first add-on for Dawn of Discovery (aka Anno 1404), released today, giving players access to all-new features and units. The add-on includes a rich Venetian setting with ship types to match, an online multiplayer mode that supports up to eight players, along with new challenges and quests. The add-on can be purchased by itself or as part of Dawn of Discovery Gold. A playable demo for the original Dawn of Discovery can be downloaded here.

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The final week of February sees a ton of PC strategy games being released (many as download exclusives) lead by the latest game in a long running historical RTS game series:

Napoleon Total War: Developer The Creative Assembly and publisher Sega sends out their latest entry in their acclaimed historical RTS series. As you might guess from the title, it focuses on the late 18th century to early 19th century in Europe centering on the famous (and short) French general. The game will have multiplayer support including co-op campaign gameplay modes.

This patch for Dawn of Discovery (a.k.a. Anno 1404) updates the game to v1.2 and addresses a number of different game issues including balance changes. Continue reading after the jump for full patch notes. The Dawn of Discovery playable demo can be downloaded here.

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Next week Ubisoft plans to released Dawn of Discovery Gold via digital download. The release of the historical strategy-sim game contains the original title (released in 2009) and the new Venice expansion pack. However the expansion isn't the only extra you get when you put down your money ahead of time

Ubisoft is now offering a free game, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, for people who pre-order Dawn of Discovery Gold before its release on Feb. 25. The 2004 released game, a $9.99 value, should be good preparation for those who are interested in the next game in the series, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom. That title is due for release on March 23. In the meantime the Dawn of Discovery Gold pre-order is now available via Steam and Impulse.

Previously announced for the European market, Ubisoft has now officially announced that the US release of Dawn of Discovery (known in other parts of the world as Anno 1404) will be getting an expansion pack titled Dawn of Discovery: Venice. This expansion will be adding multiplayer features to the game for the first time, with versus modes for up to eight players along with a co-op mode that will let players fight against AI enemies.

The game will use the new Venetian setting to add two new ship types, 300 new quests, up to 60 new items and more. The expansion will be released in the US via download exclusively on February 25. On that same day Ubisoft will release Dawn of Discovery: Gold Edition which will have both the original game and the new expansion.in one product. It will also be released as a download product only.