Paradox Interactive have purchased fellow strategy game developer AGEOD and will publish their next game Rise of Prussia due out Q1 2010.
From the quotes provided in the press release it appears that both parties are happy with the marital arrangements:
"We have played and enjoyed AGEOD's titles for years and greatly respect what they have achieved as a development studio. We see this acquisition as an opportunity to make AGEOD's titles accessible to a wider audience on the global market," said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. "AGEOD will continue to operate as a self-run partner studio, with its own line of products based on the AGE-engine and its own development team while Paradox will assist with our publishing resources and networks," Wester continued.
"This alliance will allow AGEOD to expand our audience and availability via Paradox's worldwide network as well as obtain skills and expertise that our limited means prevented us to achieve on our own," Philippe Thibaut, lead game designer and co-founder of AGEOD noted. "We will concentrate on our core expertise of product development and be able to offer our customers brand new strategy games as early as 2010, with the same level of care and dedication that we have for the past 5 years."
Below are a few screens from Rise of Prussia.