- Baker to Develop All-New Stories for Turbine's Popular
MMOG -
LYON, FRANCE - 2 May 2006 - Atari and Turbine announced today that
Keith Baker, the original creator of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Eberron®
campaign setting, will pen additional storylines and works of fiction for
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE™: Stormreach™. The game is the first massively
multiplayer online (MMO) roleplaying game based upon the iconic world of
D&D®. Developed by Turbine, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach is
published in Europe by Atari and operated by Codemasters Online Gaming. The
property is under license from the Hasbro Properties Group, the intellectual
property development arm of Hasbro.
"Keith Baker is the creative genius behind Eberron, the setting for
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach. His fiction is sure to engage and
entertain our players in the months to come," said Jeffrey Anderson,
president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. "We are delighted to be working with
him."
A long-time fantasy devotee and game designer, Keith Baker's breakthrough
occurred when he entered a contest in 2002 held by Wizards of the Coast, maker
of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS roleplaying game and a subsidiary of Hasbro. The
contest sought an innovative concept for a new world in which fans could play
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Chosen from more than 11,000 submissions, Baker's
Eberron world won the contest and became Wizards of the Coast's setting for the
third edition of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, as well as the setting for DDO. Baker
also published his first novel, City of Towers, which released in February 2005,
to critical acclaim.
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach brings the essence of the classic
pen-and-paper roleplaying experience - with an emphasis on small party-based
dungeon crawling adventures - to the PC. Authentic features in the game include
customisable characters; dungeons filled with devious traps; monsters and
stories from the Eberron campaign setting; an on-screen d20 (20-sided die) and a
dungeon master. The unique online world of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE
represents a new paradigm for the MMO genre with unique features including
party-based quests, integrated voice chat, real-time action combat, and
award-winning graphics.
For more information on DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach, visit the
European portal at www.ddo-europe.com.
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