Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series and free-to-play MMORTS Stronghold Kingdoms, hit a major milestone this week with 500,000 registered players. Yesterday Kingdoms’ 500,000th player joined ‘World 4’, bringing the total number of Lords and Ladies to half a million. World 4 is the game’s newest English-language server, launched on Saturday 3rd March to keep pace with the r... more.

Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series and free-to-play MMORTS Stronghold Kingdoms, are proud to announce the launch of the game’s third English-language game world. ‘World 3’ was launched yesterday, on February 29th at approximately 20:30 UTC, in response to sharply rising player numbers. This increase coincides with the opening up of several avenues for new users in 2012, su... more.

Stronghold Kingdoms is offering players up to $80 worth of Crowns, the game’s virtual currency, for each friend invited into the game through the new “Invite a Friend” feature. Firefly Studios will match each invited player’s first purchase of Crowns and credit the same amount to the inviting player, up to the value of $80. Players can invite their friends to play Kingdoms in-game by cl... more.

At the end of 2010 Firefly asked fans to send in Stronghold or Christmas themed images for the chance to win in-game prizes. Winners were revealed daily in an advent calendar style competition. In 2011 we reached out to these same people, asking them to send in any and all fan-made Stronghold videos. All developers have the occasional fan video sent in, but nothing makes a one smile quite like ... more.

Over the Christmas period Firefly Studios gave away almost 1,000,000 in-game strategy cards in the Stronghold Kingdoms Christmas Giveaway. Upon login players of the free-to-play persistent online strategy game were greeted to over two weeks of free prizes and festive cheer. In that time a massive 750,000 cards were snatched up and 13,000 rare premium tokens were handed out to Lords and Ladies o... more.

Stronghold Kingdoms will be giving away hundreds of thousands of presents this Christmas in the great Stronghold Kingdoms Christmas Giveaway. As a big “Thank You!” to the Kingdoms community, Firefly’s two weeks of Christmas are almost here. Starting next week players of our free-to-play online strategy game Stronghold Kingdoms will be given the chance to win an in-game present every day. ... more.

Firefly Studios, creators of the free-to-play massively-multiplayer castle building game Stronghold Kingdoms, today announces the launch of their second world. Simon Bradbury, creative director of Firefly, said “Lords and ladies have been fighting over contested lands in our medieval castle-builder since we launched Stronghold Kingdoms. Now demand has become so strong in the Beta that we�... more.

Welcome my Liege, your Kingdom awaits you! We at Firefly towers have at last thrown open the gates to Stronghold Kingdoms! Having put many long hours into the game we are both proud and really excited to be finally going ‘Live’. A huge thanks to all who have played and helped test on the 4 Alpha iterations, your feedback has been (and will continue to be) fantastic. We are still a bet... more.

In 2010 thousands of lords and ladies will join the race for the crown in Firefly’s new free-to-play castle MMO. Stronghold fans, Alpha 3 will be finishing on 8th July. Alpha 4 (the final Alpha, we promise!) will be starting on 19th July.  The good news is that anyone who signs up to strongholdkingdoms.com (if you have already signed up you will automatically be included) before July 19t... more.