{"title":"Kalypso Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eKalypso Media Group is a German developer and publisher whose catalog has become a natural home for strategy, management and simulation players who want depth over spectacle. Founded on August 16, 2006 in Worms, Germany by Simon Hellwig and Stefan Marcinek, the company expanded beyond its home market quickly, opening a United Kingdom branch in Bracknell a year after founding, a United States office in Ridgewood in June 2009, and Kalypso Media Digital Ltd. in Leicester that same year to handle online marketing for its own games and other providers' products - the entity often credited on Steam store pages. Its identity as a publisher took shape through a run of shrewd acquisitions of orphaned or undervalued brands. In November 2008 it founded Realmforge Studios in Munich, integrating Boxed Dreams (the developer of Ceville), and in the same period bought the rights to the Tropico series from Take-Two Interactive, with Tropico 3 becoming the first entry released under the Kalypso name. When Ascaron filed for bankruptcy in April 2009, Kalypso acquired the rights to DarkStar One, Patrician and Port Royale that June and hired fifteen former Ascaron staff to found Gaming Minds Studios in Gütersloh, the team that went on to develop Railway Empire and the later Port Royale games. In September 2010 it took over the brands of the insolvent Berlin firm The Games Company, folding its studio Silver Style Entertainment into a new Berlin operation, Noumena Studios, later renamed Skilltree Studios before it closed in March 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe company's second decade brought consolidation, revived franchises and changes at the top. Kalypso Media Mobile was founded in Berlin in April 2014 and shipped its first mobile titles in May 2015. In January 2016 co-founder Stefan Marcinek sold his shares and departed, leaving Simon Hellwig as sole shareholder. July 2018 saw the acquisition of Commandos, Imperial Glory and Praetorians from Pyro Studios, a move that brought one of PC gaming's defining real-time tactics series back into active development: HD remasters of Commandos 2 and Praetorians followed in 2020, and Claymore Game Studios was founded in Darmstadt in December 2019 to build new Commandos games, beginning with Commandos: Origins. Gaming Minds became wholly owned in June 2020, with founders Daniel Dumont and Kay Struve staying on as studio leads, and since December 2020 Realmforge has overseen both the Dungeons and Tropico series, while Nine Worlds Studios opened in Munich in October 2021 - named for the nine worlds of Norse mythology - to create the next Tropico entry, Tropico 7. In October 2022 Kalypso announced the death of Simon Hellwig, the co-founder who had guided the group from its first day. Best known today for Tropico, Sudden Strike, Dungeons and Railway Empire, Kalypso also publishes work from independent partners, among them Slovak studio Games Farm's Norse action RPG Vikings: Wolves of Midgard (2017). For players, the through-line is a publisher that keeps classic PC genres alive and well made - city builders, trade simulations, tactical squad games, dungeon management - with a back catalog that rewards anyone willing to dig in.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vikings-wolves-of-midgard-pc-download","title":"Vikings: Wolves of Midgard","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eVikings: Wolves of Midgard drops you into a Norse world on the edge of Ragnarok, where the Fire and Frost Giants are joining their armies and the only thing standing in their way is a clan of exiles. Games Farm's action RPG blends the history and mythology of the Vikings with a dark fantasy twist: isometric hack and slash combat, a progression system built on blood sacrifice, and a winter so harsh that the cold itself will kill you if you linger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eRagnarok Comes to Midgard\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLegend says that when the coldest winter descends, the Jotan will return to take their vengeance on the Gods of Asgard. That winter is here. The Ulfung, the Wolves of Midgard, are a notorious band of ostracized Viking warriors, bloodied but unbowed after the destruction of their village. As the new clan chief, you rebuild what was lost, rally the survivors, and spearhead the charge against the fiendish creatures of the Fimbulwinter before Midgard is annihilated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlay as a fierce Viking warrior or a merciless shieldmaiden and travel beyond earthly Midgard into freezing Niflheim and boiling Balheim, facing dire wolves, undead hordes, goblins, giants and the beasts of Ragnarok along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBlood for the Gods\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery enemy you cut down leaves blood behind, and blood is what the gods want. Collect it from the fallen and carry it back to the altar, where sacrificing it earns gifts from the Gods that enhance your powers. It is the heart of the game's progression, and it turns each raid into a tribute run: the more you kill, the more you have to offer, and the stronger the Wolves grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePower-infused amulets\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEquip talismans tied to the gods themselves, like the Talismans of Thor or Loki, to make their abilities your own. Swapping amulets reshapes how your chief fights, so it pays to experiment.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTrials of the Gods\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePut your new skills to the test in dedicated challenges that push your build against the toughest the realms have to offer. Complete them to earn further rewards worth the risk.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSteel, Rage and the Art of Combat\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombat is fast, bloody and satisfyingly physical. Decapitations and dismemberment are common, and the arenas fill with the remains of everything you have fought. Mastery comes from committing to your weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect your skills with each weapon type to unlock its true potential. Swords, axes and hammers, bows for keeping the Jotan at range, and spell-powered canes for those who prefer sorcery to steel all have their own path to master.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActivate Rage Mode and let your anger take hold. For a short window your chief becomes a berserker, overwhelming packs of enemies in bloodthirsty combat when a fight turns against you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMix and match talismans, weapon skills and gifts from the gods to build a warrior or shieldmaiden that suits how you like to fight, then refine it as harder realms demand more of you.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Cold Is Coming for You\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Deadly Fimbulwinter is not scenery. Out in the frozen realms, exposure builds the longer you stay in the open, and nature's wrath will wear your chief down as surely as any giant. Survival means reading the map for warmth and shelter, moving between fires with purpose, and choosing when to push on and when to fall back. It gives the exploration a tension that most action RPGs never attempt, and the contrast with Balheim's heat and the swamps of the undead keeps every realm feeling distinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Wolves Hunt Better Than One\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole journey to the Shores of Midgard can be shared. Team up with a friend in two player online co-op, or fight side by side on one screen, and divide the clan's work between you: one of you wading in with an axe while the other rains arrows from the ridge. Four difficulty levels let you tune the challenge to your skills and talents, and for those who want the Fimbulwinter at its most unforgiving, there is the unrelenting hardcore mode.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wolves are cold, they are hungry, and they will stop at nothing to survive. Take up the chief's mantle, gather blood for the altar, and lead the Ulfung into the winter that ends the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kalypso Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39218506828,"sku":"PC_10602586508_DL_GL","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-vikings-wolves-of-midgard-pc-mac-linux-steam-game.jpg?v=1790117809"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-fr\/collections\/kalypso-media.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}