Kalypso Media and Chromatrix Sign "The Dark Eye" License Agreement for Multi-Platform Action RPG Demonicon

"Demonicon" Becomes "The Dark Eye – Demonicon" for console and Windows PC

Ridgewood, NJ, February 9, 2011 - Kalypso Media and Chromatrix GmbH today signed a license agreement granting Kalypso the use of The Dark Eye brand for their upcoming action role-playing game Demonicon. Scheduled for release in 2012 for Windows PC and console, Demonicon will be developed using the official rules of Europe’s best-known and most popular role-playing universe. Fittingly, the new game will be titled The Dark Eye – Demonicon. 

 

"By integrating the official The Dark Eye rules, Demonicon becomes a must-have title in the hearts and minds of fans of the popular RPG universe," said Simon Hellwig, Global Managing Director, Kalypso Media Group. "By combining our extremely strong video game development capabilities with a very popular and time-proven system of elegant RPG rules, we are confident that we can deliver a superb title that will thrill fans of RPG and The Dark Eye brand in equal measure." 

 

Dr. Stefan Blanck, Managing Director Chromatrix GmbH added, "We are thrilled to work with Kalypso Media, an experienced global publisher and developer with a strong track record. Through the official The Dark Eye license and its immersive game world, The Dark Eye - Demonicon will undoubtedly become a 2012 video game highlight."

 

The Dark Eye – Demonicon is currently under development by Noumena Studios, a Kalypso owned development studio in Berlin for PC and console, and is scheduled for a release in 2012.

About The Kalypso Media Group

 

Founded in 2006 in Germany by industry veterans Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, Kalypso Media is a global, independent developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment software that employs nearly 100 video game industry experts world-wide.

 

Along with Headquarters in Worms, Germany, the company has offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.  Kalypso Media also enjoys very strong global digital distribution through its Kalypso Media Digital Ltd. subsidiary, and owns three development studios – Realmforge Studios GmbH, Gaming Minds Studios GmbH and Noumena Studios GmbH -- and works with multiple leading independent developers.

 

Kalypso Media recently released the critically acclaimed best-seller Tropico 3 for Xbox 360 and PC, DarkStar One – Broken Alliance for Xbox 360, Disciples III: Renaissance, Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade and Dungeons for Windows PC. Upcoming titles include The First Templar, Tropico 4 and Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. Further information about Kalypso Media is available at  http://www.kalypsomedia.com.