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Microsoft Packs Up, Moves To Catan

Posted by simoniker on from the german-board-game-attach dept.

Klytus writes "According to a press release posted at GamingReport.com, Catan GmbH and Mayfair Games have made a deal with Microsoft for the creation of the 'Catan Online Game', based on the popular Settlers of Catan board game. From the post: 'Available on Microsoft's Premium Game Service, the Catan Online Game will be accessible via both the MSN Zone and MSN Messenger. There will be multi-player online and download variants, each with rich graphics and a sophisticated AI.' Now we can play Catan endlessly through MSN." This deal is in addition to Capcom's various versions of Catan for console and PC in Japan.

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  1. Catan is already available online by borisbfurry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right here

  2. Re:You can smell the sponsorship from here! by hrbrmstr · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's "news" (albeit a bit of a stretch) since there are quite a few Catan "junkies" on /. Also, the shock-value of M$ cornering the Catan market is definitely news for /. readers.

    It would have been a bit more useful if the editor included links to the already existing free implementations of Catan on- and off-line (which will probably all be decimated by lawyers now that M$ is "in the game") such as:

    - http://sourceforge.net/projects/javasettlers
    - http://sourceforge.net/projects/settlers3d
    - http://gnocatan.sourceforge.net/

    There are others lurking out there, but these are the ones I hit regularly. Download the source now while you can!

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