On the heels of today's announcement that three games from their prior agreement have shipped, Encore Expands its Co-Publishing Agreement with JoWooD Productions Software AG is the press release announcing more overseas collaboration between JoWooD and Encore. Here's a bit:

Los Angeles, CA - August 19, 2003 - Encore, a majority-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation (NASDAQ: NAVR), today announced that it has expanded its co-publishing agreement with JoWooD Productions Software AG, an Austrian game publisher and developer. Under this new agreement, Encore will manage the sales, distribution and marketing exclusively in North America for over a dozen new PC games, a back catalog of an additional two dozen PC titles, and a handful of console games. JoWooD is delivering the content for these games, which are anticipated to begin shipping by the end of the year. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Silent Storm, Spellforce and Soldner, eagerly awaited games that have received favorable previews from the press and consumers, are among those covered by this agreement. Others include Against Rome and Railroad Pioneers.

This agreement follows one signed by JoWooD and Encore in March of this year, in which AquaNox 2: Revelation, Cold Zero, Chaser, Neighbors from Hell and Wildlife Park were the lead titles among nine covered in the contract. The first three began shipping today; Neighbors from Hell is scheduled to ship next week and Wildlife Park will follow in October.