NDL’s Graphics Engine Powers Highly Anticipated Shrouded Isles Dark Age of Camelot Expansion Pack Showcases Impressive Graphic Enhancements

(Chapel Hill, NC – December 3, 2002) - NDL is in the spotlight again with the release of Mythic Entertainment’s highly anticipated Shrouded Isles , the expansion pack to the award-winning Dark Age of Camelot . Powered by NDL’s 3D graphics engine, Shrouded Isles takes advantage of the latest in 3D hardware and showcases all new state-of-the-art graphics. Among other new features, the game contains more realistic water with "wake" movement reflections, and extremely high-resolution textures that make every player, monster, and world object appear more realistic. Along with enhanced frame rate performances, the game also contains new shadow effects, special  animation blending to allow monsters and other in-game characters to move moresmoothly and realistically, and Mip-mapping to reduce texture "sparkle" at long distances.

Mythic Entertainment and NDL recently celebrated their fifth year of working together. "Dark Age of Camelot continues to be one of the hottest MMORGs and we are thrilled with the relationship we have developed with Mythic Entertainment over the years," said John Austin, President of NDL. "Mythic hasused the latest version of our engine to create an impressive addition to the original game. "

Dark Age of Camelot has won awards from GameSpot, PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World and many other gaming publications. Both USA Today and MSNBC named it the "Top PC Game of the Year." In its review f the title, GameSpy wrote "the graphics used for the spell effects are some of the best seen in any MMORPG to date."

"The NDL engine allowed us to quickly and efficiently implement new graphic features into the game. Because of this, our team was able to spend more time creating a truly unique world with great gameplay," said Rob Denton, CTO of Mythic Entertainment. "NDL provided us with the tools we needed to create a 3D environment unlike anything else available today in an online game."Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles, developed by Mythic Entertainment and co-published with Abandon Entertainment, is being distributed by Vivendi

Universal Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.NDL provides a comprehensive set of tools, plugins, and C++ run-time libraries for creating real-time games and other interactive 3D content for the Windows, Xbox, PlayStation 2, and Gamecube platforms. For typical game development projects, the toolkit can save the developer at least 6 months of development time and at least 2 engineer-years of effort.

About NDLNDL, with offices in North Carolina and California, has been responsible for major developments in 3D graphics technology incorporated intoleading PC and game software. NDL’s graphics engine is used by leading game developers and publishers. Titles using the engine include Mythic Entertainment’s Dark Age of Camelot, Irrational Games’ Freedom Force, Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Totally Games’ Star Trek Bridge Commander. For more information on NDL,  visit http://www.ndl.com

 About Mythic Entertainment  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 http://www.mythicentertainment.com