Press Release: Virtual Programming Ltd, Signs HSC For iPhone Game Port
by Eric March on July 16, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Got it bad for hardcore strategy games that will drain your battery and cause you to lose all track of time? Then you’ll love this press release:
Arlington, VA - Hendrickson Software Components (HSC) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Virtual Programming Ltd. (VP) to port their best selling game, Europa Universalis, to the iPhone.
According to HSC owner Jeff Hendrickson, “… one of the companies long term goals has been to branch off into computer gaming. We’ve typically been involved in the production of applications software, along with supporting an active consulting practice. The Virtual Programming Ltd opportunity allows us to work with the best supporting their iPhone game porting efforts for this exciting game, along with actively supporting software development using the new iPhone SDK.”
The Europa Universalis game delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy. This already classic Strategy title is characterized by immense depth and historical content that charge its challenging gameplay with incredible replayability value.
Pricing and Availability:
Contact Virtual Programming Ltd for pricing and availability. The game will be ported to iPhone using the new iPhone SDK, for developing applications that run on iPhone and iPod touch.
HSC Website
Virtual Programming Website
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Screenshot/App IconFounded in 1998, Hendrickson Software Components (HSC) offers a variety of software products and components, including Purify, Compass, BioAx and packaged enterprise applications. hsc also offers custom software development and consulting services to help companies develop corporate-compliant, spam-free e-mail infrastructures. The company is based in Arlington, Virginia and can be contacted online.
For those that don’t remember, Europa Universalis — which is based on the French strategic board game of the same name — came out for the PC platform back at the turn of the century and became a hit amongst strategy nuts for its incredible depth of play and strong elements of strategy. If the iPhone port remains faithful to its roots, you’d better get a spare charger so you can juice up as many times a day as necessary to feed your addiction.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:47 am
EU is currently on it’s THIRD iteration and continues to be huge. Lot of folk I know rave over it. (And their WW2 version, “Hearts of Iron”.
THis is awesome news.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Four, if you count EU: Rome as part of the canon. It’s great to see some big name titles come to the iPhone though — even if they are ports, they further prove the platform’s worthiness for gaming as much as utility.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Wow this looks great. And i really like the sound of the WW2 version.
This is the kind of thing i was hoping to see on the App Store.
Any estimated release date? Are we looking at sometime this year?