The European publisher 1C Company have today announced the development of two brand new console games to be released in 2008 and 2009. The two games are Captain Blood, which is a pirate adventure game for the Xbox 360 and PC, and the second is called Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, a combat flight simulatior for PS3, Xbox 360, DS and PSP.

"1C is using cutting-edge technology, including the amazing power of modern consoles, to bring superior games to every market," said Nikolay Baryshnikov, international sales director, 1C Company.

"Our aim is to bring our games to even more players and expand our vision with cross platform development. We are embracing any new gaming technology that will improve our products including digital downloads, consoles, handheld gaming, Epic’s Unreal 3 Engine, Nvidia PhysX and DirectX 10."