Electronic Arts buys out Mythic Entertainment

Mythic Entertainment, best known for designing the Dark Age of Camelot series, announced that they are going to be absorbed by Electronic Arts in the second fiscal quarter of 2007. Mythic Entertainment will be known as EA Mythic and the two founders of the company will retain their leadership roles. In regards to the acquisition Marc Jacobs the current CEO and co-founder of Mythic Entertainment said, “Mythic has always been a leading independent developer in the online space, EA’s commitment to the online market as well as its focus on creating games of unsurpassed quality, scope and scale gives us opportunities and resources we could only dream about in the past.” The first title to be published under the EA Mythic label will be Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in 2007.