Artix Announces RPG WarpForce

June 16, 2009

ARTIX
ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES WARPFORCE; FIFTH RPG TITLE

Beta scheduled to start July 3,
2009

Artix
Entertainment, with over 80 million gamer accounts for their four game titles,
today announced WarpForce, its fifth RPG, scheduled to launch July 15,
2009. 


“WarpForce is all about taking the Player on Star Trek and Star Wars-style
adventures from the point of view of characters that come from a traditional
swords-and-sorcery fantasy world,” said Tony Deller, Project Lead, WarpForce. 
“It’s all about going on a journey through the stars on a search for every
bit of humor and action in the universe.”  


WarpForce
begins
on the world of Lore, familiar to the Artix audience as a world inhabited by
wizards, warriors, dragons, and all types of fantastic creatures.  


WarpForce
is
about the people of Lore (Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and a reptilian race called
Drakel) who band together to create a fleet of starships powered by both magic
and science, and zoom into outer space on missions to defeat a powerful and vast
alien network that is working to take over the universe.  The game takes ideas
of traditional fantasy and rockets them into a Sci-Fi universe, combining
classic RPG elements with the hallmark Artix Entertainment humor. 


WarpForce
is a
massive single-player storyline that unlocks as the player levels up (much like
a console game), becoming more powerful by increasing stats and getting advanced
equipment.  Players will be able to choose from several races (each with
benefits), dynamically change equipment during colorful and exciting animated
battles, and also be able to combine their efforts in large wars and crossover
events. 

Beta is
scheduled to begin July 3, 2009, and will be free to players of Artix’s
AdventureQuest
game (www.battleon.com)
who have upgraded to Guardian status.  The full
public launch of WarpForce is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, 2009.

Players
can visit

www.warpforce.com
to get more game details. 

Gamers
are encouraged to follow WarpForce’s development progress, and see
concept art and screen shots, at

http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tt.asp?forumid=261
.