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and iGames Announce Ultima Online: Third Dawn Event iGames
(http://www.igames.org/) centers across North America and Canada will be
hosting a Launch Party (http://www.galaxycomputing.net/uo/uo_index.htm) to
celebrate the release of Ultima(tm) Online: Third Dawn(tm) (UOTD) (http://www.uo.com/thirddawn/),
the recent release from Electronic Arts’ (NASDAQ: ERTS) ORIGIN Systems(tm)
studio. The event will be held on Friday April 6th from 6:00 p.m. – Midnight
EDT, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PDT. This
exciting party will provide players with the opportunity to play with gamers
in each center or online with players from other iGames centers across North
America and Canada. EA and iGames are working together to form a game center
guild program bringing Ultima Online players together on a quarterly basis at
iGames centers to participate in special UOTD events. To join the guild
program gamers can sign up at the iGames web site. Gamers interested in
leading a guild can request to form their own guild after signing up for the
guild program. With
Third Dawn, Ultima Online is more immersive than ever with fully animated,
motion captured 3-D characters, each with enhanced character gesturing and
animations. It’s an entirely new look and feel to the familiar world of
Britannia(tm). Explore a vast and dangerous new land. Battle new beasts and
monsters, Show off dazzling light displays with a new particle system for
spell and magic effects, Travel the entire world of Britannia, enjoying the
depth of an enhanced lighting and shading system and a 3-D terrain system and
Experience 3-D-enhanced characters and monsters throughout all of
Britannia. Ultima Online: Third Dawn will bring the 3-D experience to Ultima
Online’s Britannia, providing a fresh new look for one of the most popular
fantasy gaming worlds of all time. Electronic
Arts, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading
interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts
posted revenues of more than $1.4 billion for fiscal 2000. The company
develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for personal computers
and video game systems and markets its products under three brand names: EA
SPORTS(tm), EA GAMES(tm) and EA.COM(sm). More information about EA’s products
and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.ea.com. #
# # Contact:
iGames.org www.igames.org Steve Isaacs steve@igames.org ORIGIN,
Origin Systems, Ultima, Third Dawn, Britannia, Electronic Arts, EA SPORTS, EA
GAMES and EA Store are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of
Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EA.COM is a service
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