The last time we spoke about this game was back in March when we suggest that a later summer release was scheduled, however the lead designer at Firefly Studios, Simon Bradbury, has now confirmed that the game will arrive on 25th October – as we have seen previously this game is only available for PC.

Bradbury thanked gamers for their patience and promoted the game by saying that it boasts the best bits from previous titles, whilst adding some all-new features such as night time sieges. Also the graphics should be much better than before thanks to a “cutting edge graphics engine”. Check out EuroGamer for some additional details.

The game will be available via Steam and other digital download services, also a boxed version of the game will be available in stores, if you pre-order the game from Steam you get the first Stronghold for free – this is not much of an incentive in our opinion, but here’s the Steam link anyway, below we have added the game’s minimum system requirements:

OS: Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista® (with Service Pack 2) or Windows® 7
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon™ 64 3000+ or higher
Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2 GB for Vista and Win7
Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compatible video card (ATI® Radeon X1000/GeForce® 6 Series or better)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 2 GB space free
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

Will you buy Stronghold 3?

As James Orry over at videogamer.com recently reported, the castle building strategy game was scheduled to be released in the spring, but it won’t be arriving now until late summer. The reason for the launch date delay is so that the developer can add a whole host of new features to the Stronghold 3 game.

The game’s designer Sim Bradbury spoke out about the launch date delay, and said that they want to make sure that fans of the series get the title that they want and deserve. Simon went on to say that although gamers will be disappointed in the delay, they won’t be disappointed with the new features.

Stronghold 3 – which actually works out as the sixth game in the series after several spin-offs and an MMORTS – promises a stunning graphics engine, improved multiplayer gameplay and cutting edge physics, as well as night time battles and a new weather system.

Are you disappointed that the Stronghold 3 game has been delayed until the summer?