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Mythic Entertainment said design work had started on its next-gen...

Mythic Entertainment said design work had started on its next-generation massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), code-named Imperator. Company said it was designing game, followup to its MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, to “to be a radical departure from…

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the current generation of online games… While many features of the game will be familiar to today’s gamers, Imperator will intertwine them with new elements in a decidedly different manner than the current generation of online games.” Spokesman for game maker based in Fairfax, Va., told us it wasn’t “putting a release date on the new product as yet [because] they want to make sure that they are 100% happy with the game they develop rather than trying to get it out on or before a deadline date.” Mythic said Dark Age of Camelot attracted more than 200,000 active subscribers after 9 months of availability. That game now is scheduled to be released “in the fertile Japanese and Korean markets,” company said, adding that “it won’t be long before Dark Age of Camelot is competing for the [rank of] number one MMORPG worldwide.”