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It's taken a long time but this week developer Firefly Studios has launched its open beta test for Stronghold Kingdoms, its free-to-play strategy MMO game based on its long running Stronghold game franchise. First announced over a year ago the browser based game has the player building and controlling his castle and village while also interacting and battling with other online players.

Stronghold Kingdoms is not the only game Firefly Studios is working on. As announced earlier this year the studio plans to release Stronghold 3, the next version of its more traditional retail castle sim-RTS game series, sometime in 2011.

Last May, developer Firefly Studios announced their plans for the next game in their best selling Stronghold strategy series with Stronghold Kingdoms, an MMO -themed title that would allow thousands of players to interact with each other while building their castles and kingdoms. It's been some time since that first announcement but today Firefly revealed more info about Stronghold KIngdoms.

The biggest reveal is that the game will be a free-to-play MMO that will also involve virtual cards that players will receive each month. The cards will be able to impact various gameplay aspects. Firefly plans to gain revenue by players purchasing optional extra cards. The open beta is supposed to launch later this year.

2K Games won't just be releasing Borderlands for the PC the week of October 26. The publisher announced today plans to release The Stronghold Collection, a retail bundle of all of the games in developer Firefly Studios' castle sim-RTS game series. The collection will ship to stores on October 27 in the US for $29.95 with a worldwide release in 2010.

The collection will contain Stronghold, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Crusader and its recent revamp Stronghold Crusader Extreme and finally the more fantasy oriented Stronghold Legends. Firefly Studios announced earlier this year plans to launch a MMO-themed game called Stronghold Legends that is scheduled for launch in 2010.

UK-based Firefly Studios is best known for their best selling Stronghold series of castle-themed RTS games. Now the developer has announced plans to move into the MMO space with their newly announced game Stronghold Kingdoms.

A teaser site for the game has already launched with Firefly saying that players will interact with thousands of others "in a persistent medieval world". Players can build villages and castle, attack other castles and/or defend their own from invasion and make their own medieval lord. Who knows . . . you might event become King!. The game is scheduled for a 2010 release date but so far Firefly has not indicated if this will be a downloadable MMO or a retail game release.