Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Goes Gold

GOA and Mythic Entertainment issued a press release earlier today announcing that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has officially gone gold.

WARHAMMER® ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING CONQUERS GOLD STATUS

Award-Winning Fantasy MMORPG Marches Towards Launch

Paris, France. August 26th, 2008 GET READY FOR THE WORLDWIDE WAAAGH! GOA, Orange’s games and Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoningâ„¢ (WAR), has gone gold and will open its servers on September 18, 2008 with an MSRP of £34.99.

(Warhammer Online going gold is a major milestone”, said Ghislaine Le Rhun, Managing Director of GOA. “We will soon be holding in our hands the boxes of the game. The adventure is about to begin !”.

(We’ve done our best to create the next great MMORP experience, but it’s the fans that will bring our world to life), said Mark Jacobs, vice president at EA and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. (The Day of Reckoning approaches and it’s going to be glorious! It’s time to go to WAR).

Based on the popular tabletop game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an epic fantasy MMORPG featuring innovative Realm vs. Realmâ„¢ game play that pits the forces of Order and Destruction against one another on the battlefield to determine the fate of nations.

Awarded (Best Online Game) at the recent Games Convention, (Best PC Game) of E3 by G4’s X-Play and (Best MMO) by IGN, WAR has been well-received by critics and by the gaming community as an accessible and engaging MMO title. Tens of thousands of players have already joined the battle in the closed beta, and soon the time will be at hand for players the world over to pledge their allegiance to the armies of WAR.

Available for PC, WAR is rated (T) for Teen by the ESRB. For more information, visit http://www.war-europe.com.

About Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™
Experience the glory of Realm vs. Realmâ„¢! Declare your allegiance and join hundreds of thousands of mighty heroes on the battlefields of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the new MMORPG from Mythic Entertainment, creators of Dark Age of Camelotâ„¢. Enter a grim fantasy world of perpetual conflict to fight for the Realms of Order (Dwarfs, High Elves, and Empire) or Destruction (Greenskins, Dark Elves, and Chaos). Invade enemy lands, besiege imposing fortresses, and sack sprawling capital cities for the glory of your Realm. Wield devastating magic and deadly weapons, battle monstrous creatures, and join your brothers-in-arms in epic Public Questsâ„¢. Climb the Bastion Stair, carry your Guild Banner into battle, and unlock the infinite secrets of the Tome of Knowledge as you travel the world. Sharpen your blade and unleash your inner mutation; the Age of Reckoning has begun and WAR IS EVERYWHERE!

About GOA
GOA is the videogames department of Orange’s Content Division, and benefits from six years experience in the management of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Forerunner of this activity in Europe, its teams combine expertise with a passion for games and take advantage of France Telecom’s technical platform to offer the best of online games to European players. GOA and the GOA logo are trademarks of France Telecom.

About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSâ„¢, EAâ„¢, EA SPORTS Freestyleâ„¢ and POGOâ„¢. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.