Dark Horizons: Lore Open Beta Independent Mech Game Looking for Top Testers

Cleveland, OH – Oct. 24, 2003 – Max Gaming Technologies announced today the launch of Dark Horizons: Lore Open Beta. Applications taken at www.darkhorizons-lore.com/beta .

Max Gaming is opening a thousand seat beta test for Lore to engage a broad player audience in testing the game. Lore will use a persistent character technology to track and meta map the development of the game space. In addition to testing the backend technologies the player community will be invited in this early release to being collaborating with the game developers on possible sanctioned mods for the game.

“We’re passionate about building a mecha game with our players and as independent self-funded developers we believe that genuinely engaging with the game community from the very beginning is mission critical,” comments Adrian Wright founder of Max Gaming. “I’ve been designing and building the Dark Horizons Universe for over 5 years and the Lore FPS/Mecha game since last February and getting a chance to play it with some of the guys I’ve been playing with and competing against in the mecha community for the last 15 years is very rewarding, our teams passion, feedback and input is what will make Lore best of breed.”

“Developing any commercially viable game is a huge undertaking, for an independent developer the game has to compete on its merits and can’t hide behind hype. With a mecha game you have a very mature fan base that knows what it wants, our goal is to build a games with our players that is the quality of mecha game we’ve all been looking to play,” says Edward Gardner, Lore Project Lead and Vice President of Max Gaming Technologies. “Even this open beta has changed dramatically based on feedback we received from the closed beta and developers who played the game at IGC – finding the ultimate sweet spot will be the result of ‘doing more together’ with our community ‘than we could’ on our own.”

About Dark Horizons: Lore Created by independent game developers, Max Gaming Technologies, Dark Horizons: Lore www.darkhorizons-lore.com  is set in the Dark Horizons Universe in the mid 22nd century. Crammed with fast-paced, extreme action, Dark Horizons: Lore puts you in command of 6 of the 22nd century’s finest achievements, the Mechanized Assault Vehicle, or MAV. Remotely piloted from control pods located halfway around the globe these giant war machines are bristling with the latest plasma rifles, cannons and missiles. Customize and pilot a single MAV or gain experience and take command of a MAV group or even an entire battalion and fight with your friends as a unit. Join a conglomerate of free nations, the Federated States, or ally yourself with the reborn Soviet block as the Eastern Confederation. Only the men and women piloting these massive machines will decide the fate of the resource rich No Man’s Land.

About Max Gaming Technologies: Max Gaming Online was founded by Adrian Wright in 1996 and incorporated in 1998 as Max Gaming Technologies, L.L.C. based in Cleveland, Ohio. Originally, Max Gaming was created to develop backend systems for online competitive leagues, ladders, resource-based universes, MUD development and PC game development and modification.

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