GarageGames Signs Dark Horizons: Lore Bringing Mechs into the Garage as First GarageGames Core Title

Eugene OR- November 14 2003- GarageGames announced today they have signed an exclusive online licensing agreement with Max Gaming LLC for Dark Horizons: Lore, making this their first core title built with the powerful Torque Game Engine.

Lore has received an overwhelming response to its open beta, currently hosted by HomeLAN. The strong show of support from the mecha community convinced Max Gaming to nearly double its original cap of a thousand testers approved for the beta testing.

"Building a community driven Mecha Game has been our team’s passion for years,” said Adrian Wright, President of Max Gaming, “publishing Lore with GarageGames marks a major milestone for Max Gaming. Working with GarageGames is a great honor when you consider their team’s development portfolio going back to the first Mechwarrior in '89 and Starsiege in ‘99; we're now part of a great Mecha heritage."

“We always talk about fan bases that larger commercial publishers have abandoned and the Mecha community is a prime example,” comments Jeff Tunnell, President of GarageGames. “We believe that teaming with this incredibly dedicated audience, Max Gaming is going to produce the kind of franchise that Mecha fans have been anxiously waiting for.”

Utilizing award-winning network code found in the Torque Engine, Max Gaming LLC has the perfect backbone to set up the ideal gaming and development environment for Dark Horizons: Lore. When combined with Torque’s brilliant scripting, geometry, texturing and animation capabilities, the true vision of Max Gaming and Dark Horizons: Lore can now finally be realized.

About Dark Horizons: Lore Created by independent game developer, Max Gaming Technologies, Dark Horizons: Lore www.darkhorizons-lore.com  is set in the Dark Horizons Universe in the mid 22nd century. Packed with adrenaline-pumping action, Dark Horizons: Lore puts you in command of six outrageous Mechanized Assault Vehicles or MAVs. Remotely piloted from control pods located halfway around the globe these giant war machines are bristling with the latest in 22nd Century weaponry including plasma rifles, cannons and missiles. Customize and pilot a single MAV or gain experience and take command of a MAV group. You can even take control of 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 resurgent 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 created to develop backend systems for online competitive leagues, ladders and resource-based universes, Max Gaming Online has broken new ground in, MUD and PC game development.

About GarageGames: Located in Eugene, Oregon, GarageGames http://www.garagegames.com  is a pioneering on-line game publisher. Their mission is to provide independent game makers with tools, technology, education, team-building... and, even the markets they need to sell great games. GarageGames is most famous for bringing the Torque Game Engine, the technology behind "Tribes 2," to Independent developers for only $100.

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