Paradox Interactive announces Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade, a real-time strategy game set during the third crusade (1189-1192) planned for release in the second quarter of next year. Some screenshots and concept art accompany the announcement, and here's an excerpt:

Players will have the opportunity to take on this challenge as either Richard the Lionheart, set to invade and take back the treasured Holy Land once and for all, or as the great Saladin, who patiently waits and prepares his people for the oncoming invasion.

Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade invites players to rewrite history through controlling and upgrading leaders and their armies, guiding various historical factions through political events, collecting relics, and unlocking new content in a feature-rich campaign set to take on the strategy genre by force.