Over a year after it was first announced (and one of the most populated and colorful gaming forum discussions we’ve had at Appletell), Feral Interactive now invites Mac gamers to take command of history’s greatest battles as they release Rome: Total War Gold Edition on February 5th. Originally developed by The Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, the game will be released for the Mac under the Feral Legends label.

Last year, Feral Interactive announced their Feral Legends series of games, which they’re using to bring older PC games to the Mac. The first release in this series was Sid Meier’s Pirates. Now Feral has officially announced the second Feral Legends game, Rome: Total War Gold Edition. This top-rated strategy game from SEGA will be released in March. Attendees at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. can experience the game for themselves at the Feral’s booth #2530 in the South Hall of the Moscone Center.

Last Thursday, the good folks at Feral Interactive announced they’d be publishing Sid Meier’s Pirates for the Mac. Having been a huge fan of the game back in its Apple IIGS incarnation, I was both surprised and thrilled with the announcement. What I found most intriguing, however, was the announcement that Sid Meier’s Pirates was being published as part of the “Feral Legends Series,” of which I’d previously heard no mention. So, immediately after posting the announcement, I got in contact with Brad Gibson at Feral to see if he could tell me a bit more about what this Legends Series entails.

Find out what he was willing (and not willing) to tell me after the break.