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Mythic Celebrates 10 Years of Online Gaming on October 10, 2005.
Mythic Looks to The Past And The Future With Dark Age of Camelot and Upcoming
Warhammer MMORPG
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 October, 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, Vivendi Universal,
France Telecom and America Online. This work ultimately lead to the creation of
Dark Age of Camelot in 2001, the fantasy MMORPG based on Arthurian, Celtic and
Nordic legends and featuring Realm vs. Realm (TM) combat, Mythic’s unique
implementation of PvP play. Since then over 1 million players world wide have
discovered the world that Mythic created in seven languages.
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."
Source: Mythic
Reported by Joseph Bennett. |
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