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Anno Online, Blue Byte’s free-to-play strategy sim, has gone into open beta for English speakers.

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Blue Byte’s free-to-play, browser-based take on Anno 1404 has gone into closed beta; sign up now to check out Anno Online.

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Ubisoft and BlueByte have announced a pile of new content for browser-based strategy effort, The Settlers Online.

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The Settlers Online will be releases at retail next month, Ubisoft has announced. The strategy game from Blue Byte studio will come in a Standard Edition loaded with “high value content” for £19.99. Besides the game, players will also get an extra resource pack which includes 400 stones, 400 planks, 100 tools and 20 settlers, along with three tactical maps, a troop buff, 4000 gems and “The Nords 1” adventure. These items can be downloaded with a code included in the retail box. The Settlers Online will hit retail on PC December 7 in the UK.

Ubisoft has added two new free-to-play games to its line up with Anno Online and Might & Magic Raiders.

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Something of a kerfuffle has broken out – again – over Ubisoft’s ever-troubled DRM policies, which don’t like it when you switch out hardware.

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Ubisoft has announced its browser-based free-to-play strategy, The Settlers Online, has garnered over 1.5 million players since its initial release in Germany, Russia and the US. The firm also announced the European open beta starts today for the Blue Byte-developed title. Known as Castle Empire, you can sign up to play through here. Check out shots from the game below.

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A new trailer for Anno 2070 shows off the delightfully pretty new entry in the long-running city-building strategy series, teasing a number of features.

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Ubisoft has taken a holiday from live action motion control trailers to send over one with core appeal: PC-exclusive city building sim Anno 2070.

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The long-running Anno series of simulation and strategy games is getting a new entry – and a new time period – thanks to publisher Ubisoft. The new title is Anno 2070. And yes, that does mean this game will be set nearly 60 years in the future.

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Ubisoft has announced The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom for spring 2010.

Currently in development at Blue Byte, Settlers 7 features three paths to triumph–military, science and trade with a new victory points system, a new graphics engine, improved AI, “more than a dozen AI profiles, each with unique behaviors,” and multiplayer modes with leaderboards, and support for “user-generated and downloadable content.”

Shack has the announcement trailer posted should you care to have a look.