Category Archives: Kalypso

Evil Avatar reports Kalypso has released a new Tropico 4 add-on for both PC and Xbox 360. The Quick-Dry Cement pack goes for $4.99 or 400 MS Points, and adds a cement factory building, the constructor character trait, an engineer helmet, a new mission theme, and a handful of new decorations. You can see a bunch of new screenshots here.

Those planning to pre-purchase Jagged Alliance: Back in Action through Steam will be blessed with some Team Fortress 2 goodies for doing so. When you pre-purchase on the service before February 7, not only will you save 15%, you will be rewarded with three TF2 items: the Battle Bob slimming hair helmet, the Bushman’s Boonie head camouflage, and the Merc Medal. Jagged Alliance: Back in Action lands in Europe on February 10 and in North America February 14.

Kalypso has cancelled plans to bring the Xbox 360 version of Telltale’s Jurassic Park: The Game to store shelves.

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Kalypso has released a pack of screenshots from Tropico 4: Modern Times which will be available in March for Xbox 360 and PC for 1200 Microsoft Points/$19.99. The expansion takes the island into the modern era, and you, as El Presidente, must decide whether to fight the changing tide, or go with the flow. Check out the shots below.

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Kalypso has announced the Modern Times Expansion for Tropico 4 will be released in March for PC and Xbox 360.

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February 14th – Valentine’s Day – is a good day to spend time with your loved ones, maybe have a nice dinner, see a movie, spend a silly amount of money on flowers and chocolates… or you could stay at home, and load up Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, which launches on that precise date. Unless, of course, you’re in Europe. It launches there on February 10.

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Kalypso has announced its to publish Hard Reset: Extended Edition in North American during early 2012.

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A new trailer for Jagged Alliance: Back in Action shows Kalypso has ramped up production values on the series reboot.

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Kalypso Media is to publish Telltale’s Jurassic Park: The Game, and boxes should land at retail in UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa and Asia during Q1 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC. No word just yet on whether the PS3 version will be published by the as well. “We are thrilled to partner with Telltale Games to bring Jurassic Park: The Game to retail in many territories,” said Kalypso Media Group’s global MD Simon Hellwig. Jurassic Park was released digitally on PC, PS3, and 360 last month. Thanks, MCV.

Kalypso and bitComposer Games have announced that Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, the latest in the series of tactical turn-based games, will be released in February 2012 on PC. In it, players will be commanding teams of mercenaries as they attempt to retake the island nation of Arulco from an evil dictator. Players will take control of combat teams on the ground as well as manage the finances and the logistics of the long-overdue coup d’état.

Check out screenshots from the game below.

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Kalypso has announced a release date for Tropico 4 on Xbox 360. The game, which was released on PC over the summer, contains 20 new missions across 10 new maps and new game features such as the ability to elect ministers into power to help get your more controversial decisions passed. It’s out on October 18.

Hanging out for Tropico 4 on Xbox 360? Keep a-hangin’, publisher Kalypso Media has confirmed to Joystiq that the game planned for “mid-September” will now be arriving in mid-October.

Specifically, the game should start hitting shelves from October 18th, even though the PC version’s out already. We hear that “although it isn’t radically different in terms of visuals from its predecessor, it’s a better and more focused experience,” in case you were wondering.

Kalypso has written to let us know it’s settled on a launch window for tropical island dictatorship sim, Tropico 4. The latest entry in the series is due on PC on August 30, and will arrive on Xbox 360 in mid September.

Not sure how you feel about managing a nation dotted with volcanoes? Check out the recently released demo.

Kalypso has sent over some in-game shots from The Dark Eye – Demonicon, showing some of the locations, characters and demons featured in the game. Demonicon tells the tragic love story of two people who become “the pawns of sinister forces in a world full of cruelty and depravity.” Both are constantly threatened by mortal danger and demonic temptation and their common destiny will “determine the fate of the entire continent and will be decided by the choices they make.” Demonicon is scheduled for release in 2012 for Windows PC and consoles, and a playable demo will be on-hand at gamescom next week.

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Kalypso Media has released a demo of Tropico 4, which includes four tutorial missions and one campaign mission, where players will assume the role of the newly elected El Presidente who must build his island’s economy from a financial backwater to a world class economic superpower. Tropico 4 is set for release at the end of August, and for links to where you can download the demo, hit the page break.

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Kalypso has sent over a couple pieces of artwork from its upcoming RPG The Dark Eye – Demonicon. The art unveils Demonicon’s main character Cairon, who in the 25 years he has been alive has “bore witness to more horrors than most people endure in a lifetime.” He is apparently on the run in the Shadow Lands, and fights using arm-armour and sword. Check out the art below. Demonicon is in development from Noumena Studios, and is slated for a release on consoles and PC in 2012.

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Kalypso Media has announced Port Royale 3, which allows players to choose adventure in the high seas the Caribbean during the 17th century.

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Kalypso Media today announced that a new chapter in the Disciples series of turn-based tactical RPGs, Disciples III: Resurrection, is in development.

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Haemimont’s fourth assault on the niche genre of tropical island dictator simulation is drawing near. Check out your little slice of paradise in the screens through the break.

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Kalypso Media has just announced that the banana republic nation building simulator, Tropico 3, is now available on Xbox Live via the Games on Demand service.

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