We have submitted a new patch (v 1.10.27781) to Steam for Stronghold 3. To download the patch, simply run your Steam client and the patch will download automatically.

Read more to view notes and a list of fixes for this patch as well as a preview screenshot of a Lord overlooking a full scale siege!

We are delighted to announce Stronghold 3: Gold Edition! Set for release on 25 May 2012 for PC and Mac, the Gold Edition bundles the latest version of Stronghold 3 with a new “Blackstaff” single player campaign. It will also unlock all 12 historical sieges, previously only available through special editions of the game.

Find all you need to know about Stronghold 3: Gold Edition by hitting Read More.

Stronghold 3 Patch 1.10 will be released next Friday, 11 May 2012. The patch features some major changes to the core game including faster peasants, increased immigration rates, increased farm output, terrain height advantage for ranged units, a new Market and the new Coronation multiplayer mode.

Hit Read More for a summary of the main features of the patch.

Stronghold Kingdoms 

Half a Million Players!

The Kingdoms Team is proud to announce that we have hit 500,000 registered players! Congrats to the mighty “zkimal”, who joined today at 13:06 GMT, on being number 500,000. To celebrate this earth-shattering milestone we are also giving away over 100 prizes!

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Stronghold Kingdoms has won the player-voted award for “Best Strategy Download MMO” in MMO Facts’ MMO of the Year awards. After weeks of voting we were victorious, taking home the “Audience Award” voted for by you the player.

We will be submitting a new patch (v 1.9.26498) to Steam for Stronghold 3 later today. To download the patch, simply run your Steam client and the patch will download automatically.

Read more to view notes and a list of fixes for this patch as well as a preview screenshot of the Siege Tower and Laddermen in action.