Ubisoft have released patch 1.2 for Anno 1404, their historical real-time strategy game released last year.

Along with general housekeeping, various quest bugs have been resolved, online connectivity tweaked, and worryingly, spelling mistakes fixed. You can grab this patch from GP Downloads (112MB).

Changelog as follows;

 

Ubisoft has issued a new patch for Anno 1404, fixing a number of bugs and improving gameplay elements.

The most important changes include:

• A crash while saving a game could result in the online profile being lost. This error has been fixed.
• The use of special characters within the Windows user name, profile name or savegame name caused several errors (eg invalid savegames or crashes). This error has been fixed.
• Memory errors could lead to invalid savegames under specific hardware configurations. This error has been fixed.
• Ships which have destroyed a target now wait at that spot for new orders rather than returning to their starting point.

You can download this patch from GP Downloads (204MB). Check the next page for a full changelog.

Set in the Orient, Anno 1404 is the fourth Anno title, following on from Anno 1701, Anno 1503 and Anno 1602.

Players will get to know the culture and technology of the ancient Orient while learning the tricks of local trade, diplomacy and economy in order to build their own metropolis. For more information, check out our summary of the series, and stay tuned for our review shortly.

 

Anno 1602: Humble beginnings.

If you push me, I'll confess - I'm an Anno fan.

An often overlooked franchise, Anno came from rather humble beginnings back in 1998, with the European release of Anno 1602, which somehow became 1602 A.D. by the time it was released down under. Perhaps German publishers Sunflowers didn't think anyone outside Europe knew what "anno" referred to, or perhaps their translator got a bit carried away - it did little to detract from what was an unbelievably complex and, at times, overwhelming real-time strategy title.

Where the Anno games differ from virtually every other real-time strategy title out there is the emphasis on economic growth.