EA and Mythic Entertainment Announce That Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning Has Gone Gold

August 26, 2008

EA and Mythic entertainment
Announces that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has gone gold

Award-Winning Fantasy MMORPG
Marches Toward Sept. 18th Launch

Get ready for the worldwide WAAAGH!
Electronic Arts and Mythic Entertainment today announced that the
highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR), has gone
gold and will open its servers on September 18, 2008 at an MSRP of $49.99 in
North America.

“We’ve done our best to create the
next great MMORPG 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. Realm™ 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 in Leipzig, Germany, “Best PC Game” of E3 by G4’s X-Play
and “Best MMO” of E3 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.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
is scheduled to launch simultaneously in North America, Europe, and Oceania on
September 18, 2008. Available for PC, WAR is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. For
more information, visit

http://www.warhammeronline.com/