AVAST, YE SALTY SEA BARNICLES!

Pirates of the Burning Sea is the Official Talk Like a Pirate Day Video Game

Cap’n Chumbucket and Ol’ Slappy to be immortalized in Pirates of the Burning Sea as characters

Seattle, WA - September 19, 2007 - Pirates of the Burning Sea, the MMORPG featuring high seas action and adventure in a bold world of pirates and plunder developed by Flying Lab Software, has been endorsed as the Official Talk Like a Pirate Day Video Game for today’s holiday by The Pirate Guys LLC of International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

To celebrate the holiday, employees of Flying Lab Software are inviting many to the Seattle Aquarium at 7-10pm this September 19th to talk like a pirate, get hands-on game play of the upcoming video game, Pirates of the Burning Sea, announce the game’s pre-order date (October 22nd) and hear an official message to Flying Lab Software, Sony Online Entertainment and pirate fans across the world from the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Curious about the message and can’t make it to the party? Check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XF-mphFco

To take this one step further, Flying Lab Software has immortalized The Pirate Guys Cap’n Slappy, a bombastic, slightly crazy pirate who loves a good fight and would attack a fort with a grapefruit spoon if that’s all that was at hand, and Ol’ Chumbucket, the more reserved pirate who plots his way of attack if a pirate fight is necessary as characters in this video game that everyone can come across in their travels of the land and sea.

Key Pirates of the Burning Sea Game Features

• Join one of the four loyalties (Pirate, English, French, or Spanish) Live the life of a sea captain commanding a crew and fleet with up to 30 ships
• Battle other players to control more than 80 conquerable ports in the Caribbean
• Explore the world and make a name for yourself in more than 1,000 missions
• Economy driven by the players, who manufacture and sell all the goods found in the game
• Build, capture, and customize more than 65 historical ships
• Design your own personal flags and customize sail decals
• Choose from 3 different styles of melee combat – deadly and formal Fencing, flashy, dual wielding Florentine or rowdy and treacherous Dirty Fighting
• Currently accepting beta applicants: http://www.burningsea.com/beta.php

About Flying Lab Software
Flying Lab Software, a Seattle, Washington based game development company established in 1997, is the maker of the critically acclaimed Rails Across America. Flying Lab Software’s current project is Pirates of the Burning Sea for the PC, an innovative massively multiplayer online role-playing game of adventure and naval combat set in the Caribbean of the 1720s.

About Pirates of the Burning Sea
Developed by Seattle based Flying Lab Software, now under SOE’s Platform Publishing Label, Pirates of the Burning Sea is an MMORPG of intense tactical ship combat and swashbuckling adventures on land and sea. In the Caribbean of 1720, English, Spanish, French, and Pirate captains battle it out for glory and power. Every player is the captain of his or her own ship, engaging in both PvE and PvP game play that has the power to truly change the game world. Compete to conquer enemy ports, pursue 1,000+ missions, engage in a fully player-driven economy, and earn ships, skills, and gear to become the most famous -- or notorious! -- captain on the burning sea. Independently developed and in the works for five years, this is an epic online experience unlike anything else.