New development studio Ronimo Games has announced that they have a new game in development: Swords & Soldiers, a bright, colorful RTS that is headed to Nintendo's WiiWare platform. It will be a side-scrolling RTS, similar-sounding to Vanillaware's GrimGrimoire. The game will feature a single player campaign and splitscreen multiplayer, along with other unannounced modes.

Ronimo Games is new development studio created by the students who originally created de Blob, from whom publisher THQ had bought the IP from. Swords & Soldiers is scheduled to release on the North American, European, and Australian WiiWare servers in Q4 2008.

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The developers of the original version of “de Blob” announce their new game studio Ronimo Games and their first title: Swords & Soldiers.

Ronimo Games is founded by seven developers in Utrecht, the Netherlands. As students the team was responsible for the original pc game “de Blob”. Being an innovative and fun game, “de Blob” became popular on the internet and was eventually picked up by THQ. The publisher bought the IP and will soon release the new version of “de Blob” for Nintendo Wii.
Fabian Akker, one of the co-founders: “de Blob was the eye opener for us, that we can make cool games and function as a good team. The game definitely gave us the opportunity to start our own company”.

The team is developing a new game for Wii Ware: Swords & Soldiers. Swords & Soldiers is a sidescrolling real time strategy game, in which three distinct factions battle for the powers of the gods. The game will feature a single player campaign and a competitive splitscreen multiplayer mode as well as several other game modes. Three screenshots are included with this press release.
Akker: “We always dreamed of designing an RTS and when Wii Ware came out we immediately figured that this was our chance.”

Swords & Soldiers will be the first competitive strategy game on Wii Ware and is scheduled for European, Australian and American release in Q4 2008.

Akira_EX via wiiware-world.com »