Time of Defiance Finds a North American Publisher

Montreal, Canada. January 21, 2004– Publisher Strategy First and developer Nicely Crafted Entertainment are pleased to announce they have signed a deal to bring the MMO RTS Time of Defiance to North American retail shelves in April, 2004.

“Nicely Crafted is interested in bringing strong strategy games to the PC market and so are we,” says Don McFatridge, President of Strategy First. “The future is online and Strategy First and Nicely Crafted plan to move there together.”

Time of Defiance is an online-only massively multiplayer real-time strategy game set across the huge landscape of the shattered world of Nespanona. Fight for conquest of the islands and mine their mineral wealth to expand your empire.

Every other empire you encounter is another human playing online and will remember the deals you didn't deliver on and the promises you broke. Treachery, propaganda and trade are just as important as your fighting strategy. Have you got what it takes to create an unstoppable empire in your quest to take control of Nespanona?
 

“Time of Defiance is an innovative MMO title and we can’t think of a better match for it in the North American market than Strategy First”, says Toby Simpson, managing director of Nicely Crafted. “With the online gaming arena growing in size and popularity aligning ourselves with a dynamic publisher such as Strategy First makes absolute sense”.

To learn more about Time of Defiance, please visit http://www.nicelycrafted.com/todc or http://www.strategyfirst.com. Time of Defiance is set to be released in April 2004. 

Features 

• Each player is human, unpredictable and dangerous requiring all of your military, tactical and diplomatic skills.

• A world that is over 4,000 square kilometers of real distance

• Use a variety of vessels to conquer the continents, ranging from exploration vessels, tactical vessels, and support ships.

• Involving game play that can last up to 4 weeks.

• Active community of experienced players

• Offers 3 different levels of League play ranging from Easy-Medium-Hard

• Players from all over the world battle one another on one server

• Evolving game play with new features, vessels and enhancements added regularly

• Developing story line revealing the past, present and future of Nespanona

• 3 distinct races involved, the Cog Dominion, Shadoo Alliance and Nespan Collective. The Nespan have emerged recently on Nespanona and offer new and strange technology to the players

• Random features: Magnetic Storms, asteroid strikes, quantum disturbances will all affect your decisions during the game.

About Strategy First

Strategy First Inc. is a leading developer and worldwide publisher of entertainment software for the PC.  Founded in 1990, the company has grown rapidly, publishing major games in the industry and simultaneously developing its own in-house titles such as O.R.B., Disciples II, and Nexagon: Deathmatch. After winning numerous awards for games such as Disciples: Sacred Lands, Europa Universalis, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns and Steel Beasts, Strategy First continues to push the gaming envelope with its own groundbreaking titles, while maintaining its reputation as a unique alternative for independent developers seeking to market their games to a worldwide audience. Further information about Strategy First and its products can be found at www.strategyfirst.com

About Nicely Crafted Entertainment

Nicely Crafted Entertainment Ltd (NiCE) was formed in 2001 in Cambridge, England to design and develop Massively Multiplayer (MMP) Internet games, providing the player with an experience that will ultimately rival reality. NiCE is incorporated in the UK with development and research facilities in Cambridge, England. NiCE develops technology designed to ultimately allow for hundreds of thousands of players in a persistent world and designs games that leverage that technology to provide an engaging and absorbing real-time entertainment experience over the Internet.