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Publisher Kalypso Media has just announced a new game from developer Haemimont Games, the makers of Tropico 3. This time the game isn't an island sim title but co-op themed action-adventure game called The Last Templar. The game, set during the Middle Ages, is due out in the first quarter of 2011.

The game will let you control two characters. One is a French Templar, a knight who is trying to learn the secret of The Holy Grail (we hope he doesn't have to fight the Knights who say, "Ni!"). The other character is a noble lady who for some reason has been branded as a heretic. The game will feature solo play with the player able to switch between the two characters with AI controlling the other one. There's also drop-in support for two player co-op. The game is also supposed to have 20 historically accurate locations.

[Via email press release]

In a bit of a surprise, Kalypso Media has just made the Tropico 3: Absolute Power expansion pack available for purchase and download via Steam, Direct2Drive, GamersGate and other PC game download outlets. This expansion does require the original game be installed beforehand.

Just a quick reminder; this $19.99 expansion to 2009's island nation sim game from developer Haemimont Games gives you a bunch of extra options as the leader (or dictator; your pick) of a fictional Caribbean island land. There is a new 10 mission campaign in the expansion with new buildings, disasters and more. You can even put in new tourist attractions to bring in people and money or help out a new Loyalist faction that are devoted to you and your leadership.

The upcoming Tropico 3 expansion's title, Absolute Power, might be a bit overdramatic but it will provide some great content for fans to further customize their island nations. New content includes monuments, carnivals and marinas to further increase the appeal of your benign dictatorship. The expansion is expected to release in July, so players still have some time to work on their campaign speeches.

"Tropico 3 Absolute Power is the first official expansion pack to the critically acclaimed city builder/management simulation -- Tropico 3. Absolute Power invites players back to the island paradise of Tropico to experience unprecedented power as the benevolent (or malevolent) ruler 'El Presidente'. The expansion adds new campaigns, new missions, new islands, unique buildings and new presidential powers to maximize the length and success of your term in power."

Download HD Tropico 3: Absolute Power Trailer (32 MB)

Say you are a dictator in an island nation but you still want the outside world to check your island home out. What do you do? You create cool tourist attractions, that what. This week, we learned that the upcoming simulation expansion pack Tropico 3: Absolute Power will allow you to create the kinds of locations that people will want to visit without being under armed guard.

The expansion, due out in May from developer Haemimont Games and publisher Kalypso Media, lets tourists fly above your nation in a hot air balloon, ride on a big ferris wheel or bring a big expensive yachts to the marina. All of these attractions bring in money for your nation but as usual they can have some negative aspects as well. But you want to show everyone what a cool leader you are, don't you?

Are you ready for more time to be an island dictator? Kalypso Media hope so. After relaunching the dormant Tropico franchise (previously publshed by 2K Games) with Tropico 3 in 2009, the publisher is working again with deveoper Haemimont Games for the game's first expansion pack, Absolute Power.

The expansion, due out this May, will give players a chance to flex their island ruler muscles again with an all new 10 mission campaign along with 10 new islands that can be played in a sandbox mod. There's also a new Loyalist faction that are devoted to you and your leadership. In other words, they want you in place for life with no more elections. New buildings, edicts, disasters and more are also a part of the expansion. Now go out there and build some statues of yourself; you deserve it.

As promised late in 2009, publisher Kalypso Media has announced that their Reign of Augustus expansion pack for their historical strategy game Grand Ages Rome. Developed by Haemimont Games, the expansion is supposed to be a digital download exclusive and GamersGate already has it available (other download sites should come on line today).

The expansion pack adds 12 new missions to the original title along with six new multiplayer maps, four new buildings, new talents for each family, the ability to connect your city to the main Roman roads, a new God Mode with unlimited resources and lots more. The expansion pack costs $19.95.

Last year developer Haemimont Games and publisher Kalypso Media released the historical strategy-sim game Grand Ages: Rome. Today word from Kalypso Media has come of an upcoming expansion pack to the game, Reign of Augustus. This expansion is due for release in January 2010 and will be available exclusively via download with no retail release planned.

The expansion will include an all new campaign with 12 mission along with six multiplayer maps. Other new features will include new building, the ability to build roads, and a "God Mode" that will allow players to build their Roman city with unlimited resources and few disasters. The expansion will be priced at $19.99.

Players with a knack for micromanagement and looking for a big power trip may be interested in Tropico 3. In this third installment, like its predecessors, players take the role of a national leader, El Presidente, of a tropical island. Under your direction, the tiny nation needs build up an economic infrastructure from practically nothing, tend to the needs of its citizens, and get out from under the shadow of influence of superpowers like the United States and the USSR. However, being a national leader takes more than tending the peoples' every whim. In order to get a high score, players will need to skim a little here and there to put away for a retirement fund. Balancing power between what's good for your nation and what's good for you will be a constant act as the game progresses.

Download the Tropico 3 Demo
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Much like Order of War earlier this week, it appears that folks who purchase the upcoming island dictator simulation Tropico 3 via Steam will be getting some extras that are not in the regular edition of the title. According to the Steam site, the Tropico 3 Steam Special Edition will have two extra maps for use in the game's sandbox mode.

In addition to the two new maps, the special Steam addition will also give players two additional costumes that they can use for their dictator avatar that can head down to the island itself to check out its subjects. We just hope they are appropriately goofy and garish.
Download Tropico 3 Demo (1.10 GB)

This is the playable demo for Tropico 3, the game where you become El Presidente of a small tropical island and manage its development. The full game is scheduled to release in October. Full descriptions of the two demo scenarios and minimum system requirements can be read after the jump.
Download Tropico 3 Demo (1.10 GB)
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