28.03.2002: CDV signs outline contract with Game World Ltd. The Karlsruhe-based publisher of computer games, CDV Software Entertainment AG, has signed an outline contract for two full-price games and three add-ons with the Russian developer Game World Ltd. The titles to be developed and published over the next two years are American Conquest, scheduled for publication at the end of 2002, and Cossacks II, which is planned for the end of 2003, with each title expecting one add-on. In addition, a second add-on to the top seller Cossacks I will be published later this year. RTS experts Game World Ltd. used to be known under its old name of GSC Game World and was responsible, among other things, for the development of the worldwide best seller and multiple award-winner Cossacks I, of which about 500,000 copies have now been sold.