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MYTHIC ENTERTAINMENTÔ ANNOUNCES DARK AGE OF CAMELOTÔ PARTNERSHIP WITH GOA.COM AND WANADOO EDITION
GOA.COM AND WANADOO EDITION, THE ONLINE GAMING AND PUBLISHING SUBSIDIARIES OF FRANCE TELECOM, TO ESTABLISH LOCALIZED SERVERS IN FRANCE, U.K., AND GERMANY
FAIRFAX, VA - SEPTEMBER 25, 2001 - Mythic Entertainment (www.mythicentertainment.com), creator of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Dark Age of CamelotÔ, has announced a publishing and online partnership with GOA and Wanadoo Edition. Wanadoo Edition will distribute the game and GOA will establish localized servers and support throughout France, the U.K., and Germany. Dark Age of Camelot is developed by Mythic Entertainment and co-published by Abandon Entertainment (www.abandonent.com), and will be distributed in the U.S. in October 2001.
GOA has already achieved great success in France and is considered the leading online games site in that country with over one million members. Dark Age of Camelot represents GOA's and Wanadoo's latest commitment to massively multiplayer online games. By obtaining the rights to this next generation game able to host thousands of simultaneous players, Dark Age of Camelot represents the next step in Wanadoo's and GOA's plans to offer a higher level of gaming throughout Europe.
Dark Age of Camelot will be Beta-tested in Europe this fall, and will be commercially launched in January 2002 with a monthly subscription fee. Online hosting and community management will be handled by GOA's teams, already known for their work on The Fourth Prophecy, the first French language massively multiplayer RPG. Dark Age of Camelot will be translated, and customer support as well as community management will be handled in the player's native language to ensure the best support and quality of service.
"I'm thrilled to be working with GOA as a partner for our French, U.K., and German distribution," announced Mark Jacobs, President of Mythic Entertainment. "With GOA's expertise and experience in these markets, I'm expecting great things from our partnership."
Ghislaine Le Rhun, Managing Director of GOA, declared, "Mythic Entertainment has developed a great game that combines a rich and renown fiction, excellent graphics, and above all an addictive gameplay. We are proud to offer such a high standard game to European players."
Dark Age of Camelot: The Game
Camelot takes place after the death of King Arthur, and breaks new ground for online play with three realms in conflict - realms that used to be peaceful and united under Arthur's rule. The players assume a character from one of the three realms: Midgard, Hibernia, or Albion. Each realm is based on the mythologies of Viking-era Scandinavia, ancient Ireland, and Arthurian Britain, respectively. While retaining and enhancing the traditional appeal of MMORPGs (monsters, treasure, loot - lots and lots of loot), Dark Age of Camelot adds the additional challenges of protecting the player's realm's powerful relics and to raid enemy territories to steal their relics and bring them home. Dark Age of Camelot is a next generation MMORPG and features 3D-accelerated graphics with movable camera, multiple class and race combinations, Player vs. Player and Player vs. Environment action, a robust trade skill system, and the most comprehensive player Guild system in any MMORPG.
For more information and screen shots, visit the official Dark Age of Camelot game site at www.darkageofcamelot.com.
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About Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful online gaming developers in the industry today. With eleven online games to its credit, Mythic has been a major part of all of its distribution and publishing partners pay-for-play games including AOL, the Centropolis Gaming Center, Gamestorm, and ENGAGE. Their titles include some of the most popular online-only games of all time including Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict, Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Darkness Falls, Darkness Falls: The Crusade, Splatterball, Godzilla Online, and Dragon's Gate.
About Abandon Entertainment
Abandon Entertainment is a New York City-based diversified entertainment company, dedicated to creating unique entertainment products across all distribution platforms utilizing both traditional and emerging media. Underneath the Abandon umbrella of companies exists Abandon Pictures, Abandon Television, Abandon Internet Group, Abandon Ventures and Collision Entertainment. Abandon Entertainment can be found online at www.abandonent.com.
About GOA.COM
GOA is the French leader of online gaming with more than a million members. The success of the site is due in part to the diversity of the range of games - more than a hundred, including The Fourth Prophecy - as well as the community spirit and the quality of service.
About Wanadoo
As the leading Internet media company in France, Wanadoo (a subsidiary of the France Telecom group) is present on all the Internet chain of values. Its subsidiary Wanadoo Edition is in charge of producing, distributing, and publishing videogames and entertainment content for PC CD-ROMs, consoles, and the Internet. Its development strategy focuses on developing games for all platforms, publishing and wide range of videogames (action, race, platform, adventure, and strategy) and enforcing a strong international distribution.
Mythic Entertainment and Dark Age of Camelot are trademarks of Mythic Entertainment.