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MYTHIC ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRATES 10 YEARS
AS LEADER IN ONLINE GAMING
Mythic
Looks to The Past And The Future With Dark Age
of Camelot and Upcoming Warhammer MMORPG
FAIRFAX, VA - October 10, 2005 - Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the critically acclaimed massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot(R), is celebrating 10 years of being a leading developer of online games. The company is also celebrating four years since the successful release of Dark Age of Camelot. Throughout (R)ctober Mythic will be celebrating with in-game events and a prize drawing for the "10-4-10" celebration, 10 days of drawings featuring Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer(R) prizes. To enter players can visit www.mythicentertainment.com/10-4-10/.
The origins of the company go back even further than 1995.
Mythic Entertainment was created with the merger of two early online game
developers, Adventures Unlimited Software Inc. (AUSI) and Interesting Systems
Inc. (ISI) AUSI was founded by Mythic's CEO and President, Mark Jacobs who had
designed and developed the pioneering Dragon's
Gate, a text-based multi-user role-playing game starting in 1986. ISI
was co-founded in 1990 by Rob Denton, now the company COO. In the last 10 years
the company created 15 online games both independently and with various
partners including Abandon Entertainment,
Growing early to a team of 13, the company now employs over
170 designers, programmers and artists making it one of the leading independent
online game developers and building Dark Age
of Camelot into one of the most successful MMORPG franchises in the
world. Many of that same talented team is now hard at work creating an all new
MMORPG based on the Warhammer fantasy
world created by Games Workshop and due in 2007.
"We've come a long way in the 10 years since we founded the company," said Mark Jacobs, president and CEO of Mythic Entertainment. "As one of the earliest pioneers in online gaming we have been part of and important to the birth and amazing growth of this industry. It has been a very difficult and long road but we've succeeded when others failed and that success comes from having a great partnership between Rob and myself, a talented and dedicated team, great partners and a willingness to risk everything in order to succeed."
For a brief history of the company including product logos,
photographs of the team over the years and screen shots of the early works of
Mythic Entertainment visit www.mythicentertainment.com/history. Additional
material is available at www.mythicentertainment.com/presskit.
About Dark Age of Camelot (R)
Dark Age of Camelot is
a next generation massively-multiplayer online role-playing game ("MMORPG"),
and features Realm vs. Realm™ combat, Mythic's unique take on Player vs. Player
action, multiple class and race combinations, a robust trade skill system, and
the most comprehensive player Guild system in any MMORPG. The world of
Dark Age of Camelot features three Realms at war - Midgard,
Hibernia and
For more information about Dark Age of Camelot, visit www.darkageofcamelot.com.
About Mythic Entertainment(R)
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful developers and publishers of massively-multiplayer online role-playing games in the world. Credited with 15 online games, including the award winning Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic's success is based in proprietary technology, superior game design and exemplary customer service delivered by a talented staff of more than 160 people. Dark Age of Camelot is played in almost every country in the world, and is available in seven languages. The game was released in Japanese in January 2005 and in March became the first international MMORPG available in Spanish. Mythic is currently developing the Warhammer MMORPG which will be available in 2007.
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