EA Buys Online Game Firm Mythic

**Iria** · Jun 20, 2006, 09:41 PM

Source: BetaNews
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Electronic Arts said Tuesday that it had reached an agreement to acquire Mythic Entertainment, maker of the massively multiplayer online game "Dark Age of Camelot." The deal is expected to boost EA's reach in the rapidly expanding MMORPG market. Terms were not disclosed.

EA said that Vivendi's "World of Warcraft," which boasts almost 6 million users, has proven that MMORPG's aren't just a niche market. The company will form a game development studio where Mythic is based, with the new company called EA Mythic. The studio is currently developing a new game title dubbed "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning."

SFOSOK · Jun 20, 2006, 10:09 PM

By boost their reach it means taking over the entire gaming industry and taking out blood/gore in all video games as we know it and replacing it with bad music?

CDsDontBurn · Jun 20, 2006, 10:30 PM

hmm......i hope that EA buys out blizzard's WOW department and fires all their CSRs and hires all new CSRs

with no possibility of re-hire into either blizzard or EA

i have my reasons for saying that