FX Interactive reported today that the Imperivm franchise has sold over 1 million copies in Spain, Italy, and Latin America alone.

The game's best players from Spain and Italy fought at a tournament organized to celebrate the event. Congratulations to Atticus from Spain who won the tournament and got a 42" plasma television set. Each of the top 100 online players received an iPod.

Watch a video report from the event in Italian.

Download the new Celtic Kings adventure, Return to the Throne, as well as two scenarios with custom rules for single- or multiplayer games. Ascendency is a battle for control of a territory with many outposts, each of which trains different units for you. The fall of Avalon places you and your friends in defense of a vast stronghold under siege by countless barbarians. The maps are translated in English, Russian and Spanish.

Patch 1.15 provides various fixes as well as two new mini-games to enjoy - Defenders and Invaders.
Read more about the patch contents from the downloads section.

Celtic Kings will be played at a LAN party in Belgium ogranized by www.duga.be

Five copies of the game and other awards will be distributed among the gamers on the party. Read the full press release here.

For all gamers which play the German (European) version, apply this patch (~560K) to make the in-game help system working.

All other version don't have to be patched, you can freely skip this patch.

Celtic Kings is the best selling title in Spain for the last week. The game is know there under the name Imperivm and is published by FX Interactive.

FX, you're the best!

The latest review of Celtic Kings can be found on Game Cronicles. The author does a very good job on finding the strong and (unfortunatelly) some weak points of the game. His final judgement is overall score of 7.9.

Read the review here.

The Celtic Kings patch adds 20 new maps in single and multiplayer modes, improved AI and multiplayer performance, and various fixes of compatibility and stability issues.

European players do not need to download this patch.

Celtic Kings was nominated Editor's Choice by Computer Gaming World.

We have a report from an Italian fan that the game could be seen in the stores there. Expect the game in France, Germany, Italy and UK. Today is the day!

The Italian site RPG Player has published a Celtic Kings interview in english. Read it here

A full documentation of Celtic Kings Script functions and features is now open for download. Check the downloads section and rush into creating your own adventures!

Please register again your accounts at the new forum here:
http://www.celtickings-game.com/forum

The old forum will be functional only for a couple of days, and later we will leave it in a read-only state for a month, so the old topics will still be accessible. You can reach it from this link , or from the link in the "Site" board at the new forum.

These two sites offer information about Celtic Kings in French:
   Clan Arverne
   GOA
There is also a quiz with prises on the GOA site. Look for "Concours" to the left. ;)

"You might even say that Celtic Kings is the first true RPG-RTS hybrid."

Read the full review at GameSpot.

Here are some other locations to download the Celtic Kings Demo:
   File Planet
   Game's Domain (4 mirrors)
   Gigex direct

See for yourself what the battles in Celtic Kings look like in this 3 minutes gameplay movie:
  Battle (40.1Mb) (from StrategyFirst)

The second movie features a gladiator fight in a roman arena from the single player adventure:
  Gladiators (7.4Mb) (from StrategyFirst)

You can access this site from its new URL www.celtickings-game.com. All links to the old URL will continue to work.

Finally, we're ready to put the game in your hands. In a few weeks Celtic Kings will hit the stores in theUS and Australia.

Follow the links below to severall interviews in English to get an impression before you can actually buy the game.
  Gamer's Pulse (July 12, 2002)
  Gamer's Click (June 27, 2002)
  Freelancer (February 20, 2002)
  StrategyPlanet (January 17, 2002)

A trailer of Celtic Kings is available for download. Get the small version (5MB) or the high quality version (16MB).
A number of other sections are also updated:
Screen shots
Movie scenes
Wallpapers

We're pleased to announce the new title of our game - "Celtic Kings: Rage of War"
Both Strategy First and Wanadoo made press releases to announce the change in the title. Find them here:
Wanadoo press release
StrategyFirst press release

French publisher Wanadoo, in association with the North American publisher Strategy First, announces it has concluded a deal with Sofia-based studio Haemimont Games to publish and distribute Celtic Kings, its new real time strategy game (RTS). It will be released in Western Europe (except Spain) and Japan by Wanadoo, and in North America jointly by Wanadoo and Strategy First.

The game is scheduled for release on PC in the third quarter of 2002.

Read the full press release here.

Check out 10 new screenshots from Celtic Kings at www.gamescreenshots.com.

A follower of Celtic Kings known in our forum as Johvian has built a web site dedicated to the
game - www.gamedit.net/druidking.
Although still under construction the site looks great and promises to provide information to our Italian friends in their native language.

Congrats to Johvian for the excellent work!