Dark Age of Camelot developer Entertainment were last week purchased by monolithic publisher EA, and already the company is hard at work commencing utilisation of the developer's unique expertise. Apparently, Mythic will from now on assist with the running of Ultima Online, helping push the persistent world launched in 1997 into the future.

Whilst initially it is expected that Mythic's input will be cursory, the game still boasts 135,000 subscribers, and EA are widely believed to be in the process of planning a sequel. EA are also said to be working on titles to rival in the MMO arena, with Mythic well positioned to assist. For their part, Mythic are also working at present on Online, which will be the first game out of the studio since the EA takeover.

With World of Warcraft reaching six-million subscribers and becoming comfortably one of the world's most lucrative games, company's like EA are becoming increasingly keen to create their own opus and tap into the new audiences the MMO genre is now reaching. EA's acquisition of Mythic is no doubt part of this, and it will be interesting to see where games like Ultima Online now head.

By Luke Guttridge

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