Westwood Studios(tm) announced today plans to expand the public test of Earth
& Beyond(tm) to 100,000 players before it's released this fall. Earth & Beyond
is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and will be published by EA
(NASDAQ:ERTS) under the EA GAMES(tm) brand in August 2002. Gamers can sign up to
be testers at
http://ebweb.westwood.ea.com/preview/beta/index.shtml
Thousands of users will be selected every month until 100,000 testers are
participating.
Players captain their own starships and live star-spanning adventures as they
explore, trade and fight with thousands of others. Testers will be part of the
creation process and will see the universe take shape around them as the
developers add more sectors, planets, missions, quests, monsters, characters,
features, evolving plot lines and more. Testers will also become founding
members of the Earth & Beyond community, giving them access to exclusive game
information, contests, message boards, chats with the development team and
special offers from EA.
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