Redwood City, CA, June 20, 2006 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Virginia-based Mythic Entertainment®. Upon completion of the acquisition, Mythic Entertainment will become EA Mythic, a wholly-owned studio dedicated to developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).
Mythic is recognized worldwide for revolutionizing the online gaming space with the awardwinning Dark Age of Camelot® and is currently developing Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ under license agreement with Games Workshop.
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Not at all a good thing. It leaves Turbine as the only independent MMORPG company with a proven track record (and Turbine is too cosy with Microsoft for my liking). Anyone who remembers what happened when EA bought OSI will be pretty worried for the chances of Warhammer ever seeing the light of day.