Given the technology and heritage of both organisations, this strategic venture will herald new offerings to the military sector and help to solve current training and simulation issues experienced by defence customers.

Bohemia Interactive has been serving the military simulation community for almost a decade and will bring its gold standard and industry-leading simulation product "VBS2" to the partnership. VBS2 - Virtual Battlespace 2 - is a fully interactive, three-dimensional, PC-based synthetic environment specifically developed for military training, mission rehearsal, and analysis.

Caspian Learning will bring its multi-award-winning and globally unique 3D simulation-authoring software and engine, Thinking Worlds, to the partnership. Thinking Worlds will enable the strategic venture to capitalise on both the true thin-client delivery mechanisms of Caspian's core technology and the rapid simulation and scenario-editing capabilities of the authoring interface.

The fusion of the current gold standard military serious games product - VBS2 - with the thin client and rapid development cycle of Thinking Worlds will be a powerful and compelling proposition to defence clients around the world.

Peter Morrison, CEO of Bohemia Interactive Simulations, says, "We are both delighted and hugely excited by the opportunities that this new partnership offers our clients and us. Caspian Learning has delivered a unique simulation capability with Thinking Worlds. Fusing this capability with our own technology and experience will enable us to take new types of 3D simulations out to our customers in locations even closer to theatre through thin-client content delivery."

Graeme Duncan CEO of Caspian Learning states, "The many synergies between the organisations including management approach and technological ideas will deliver both short-term and long-term benefits to the market. Bohemia is the leading serious games organisation within the military sector, and we are delighted that we are able to work with the team and the technologies to drive innovation even further."