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Dark Age of Camelot:
Shrouded Isles Goes Gold;
Ships in Early
December
First Expansion to Dark Age of Camelot
Will Continue Mythic Entertainment’s
Momentum of Success
FAIRFAX, VA – NOVEMBER 12, 2002 -- Mythic Entertainment (www.mythicentertainment.com)
announced today that Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles (www.shroudedisles.com),
the highly anticipated expansion to the fastest growing online game of all
time, has gone gold. The game will be
at retail outlets in North America beginning December 3rd, 2002.
“Dark Age of Camelot is the fastest growing massively multiplayer online role-playing game
(MMORPG) in North America and Europe, and the launch of Dark Age of
Camelot: Shrouded Isles will only
accelerate that growth,” said Mark Jacobs, President of Mythic Entertainment. “I am proud of all the people at Mythic who
made this possible as well as our strong roster of international partners
including Vivendi Universal Games.”
Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles will be distributed by
Vivendi Universal Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa.
To date, over 500,000 people have
played Dark Age of Camelot, with over 50,000 people around the world playing
simultaneously at peak times. Currently
there are well over 200,000 subscribers of Dark Age of Camelot, and when the
game goes live in Korea this number is sure to surge further.
Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles extends the story of the
original game with new character classes, new races, and three new
continents. The game was developed by
Mythic Entertainment and co-published with Abandon Entertainment.
Since the release of Dark Age of Camelot, the
game has received significant acclaim: Gamespot gave the game 9.1 out of 10, and named it Multiplayer Role
Playing Game of the Year and one of the top ten PC games of 2001; USA Today and
MSNBC both named the game PC Top Game of the Year; PC Gamer awarded the game
their Editors’ Choice award and 90% rating; Computer Gaming World awarded it
their Editors’ Choice award and a four and half stars out of five. It was also
awarded online game of 2001 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles will be available for a
suggested retail price of $29.99.
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful
online gaming developers in the industry today. With twelve 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. Mythic was named one of Deloitte &
Touche’s national “Technology Fast 500” companies, and regional “Technology
Fast 50” companies. For more
information about Mythic Entertainment, visit www.mythicentertainment.com.
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.
Mythic
Entertainment and Dark Age of Camelot are trademarks of Mythic
Entertainment. All other trademarks property of their respective owners.
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