Planetwide Games will
operate Open Beta for a limited time only, until the Golden Launch date of
March 1, 2005. In 2003, 88 million people played online games
worldwide, and 198 million are expected to be playing online games by 2008.net

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comparison to each other.
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gaming reward to become the actual Emperor and Rule over the Land.

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PRESS RELEASE Planetwide Games Launches 'RYL: Path of the Emperor' (Open Beta) Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

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In the game, players assume the role of a Warrior, Cleric,
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North American "RYL: Path of the Emperor" online players who participate in
the Open Beta only during the month of February have a rare and limited
time opportunity to become a RYL Founders Guild Member.

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The NPD Group Launches Comprehensive Video Game Ownership and Usage Monitor; Detailed Title-Level Data Provides In-Depth View of Consumer Purchasing and Usage

Today, more than 1,300 manufacturers and retailers rely on
NPD to help them better understand their customers, product
categories, distribution channels and competition in order to help
guide their business and positively impact sales and revenues.

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"RYL gamers can interact simultaneously with thousands of other players
from around the world and participate in a life altering adventure
together ," said Kevin Donovan, President Planetwide Games. In "RYL: Path of the Emperor" players meet other players in a
diverse online global community where they complete specific quests and
missions, fight monsters and other players, battle in Guild vs.
"Our clients rely on their ability to understand what it takes to
make a hit title and as the gaming audience grows and diversifies,
this becomes more and more difficult. In addition, companies can gain a better
understanding of cross-title ownership.

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Members will receive the chance of a lifetime to receive unique and special
privileges when they choose from four different offer packages. No other video game has
been able to provide definitive PVP gameplay or pure Guild vs. As players advance to
each level, they discover new and stronger skills that assist them in
their ability to try and survive during all-encompassing battles
against powerful monsters.com

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Interested players for Open Beta can view a trailer of the game and
download the "RYL: Path of the Emperor" game for free at our home page
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even raise their own Dragon. Player (PVP) Action
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Planetwide Games also develops proprietary online technology
and is building a worldwide network of affiliates to distribute their
games. For more information, visit
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RYL. Marketers can also garner promotional information on their
titles from the item-level rating results. We
provide manufacturers, retailers, licensors, publishers, developers
and financial services companies with unique and timely item-level
sales tracking spanning three generations as well as the "why behind
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"RYL: Path of the Emperor" is a persistent universe or role-playing
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Some
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discounted "for life" subscription rates, MP3 Players , and additional
months of game play for free. Guild
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Planetwide Games announced today a historic
event of epic proportion, that, after Seven Years of Development, the "RYL:
Path of the Emperor" Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
(MMORPG) went into Open Beta phase for North America. "RYL: Path
of the Emperor is the first fantasy MMORPG to be comprised of true
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To download this unique MMORPG "RYL: Path of the Emperor" please go to:
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RYL players start off at Level 1, with minimal skills and abilities,
but over time they gain experience points, through achievement, which
allows them to advance to Level 2, and beyond . We developed this service to
give clients additional insights into who is playing each hit title ,
what else they own and play, and their attitudes and perceptions of
the different titles," said Richard Ow, Director, NPD Funworld.
Our comprehensive coverage of what is selling, where, to whom and
at what price makes our information indispensable for benchmarking,
competitive analysis, identifying new channel opportunities, sales,
marketing, pricing and product planning.

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"RYL: Path of the Emperor" currently has over 8.net.----Leading
sales and marketing information company, The NPD Group, today
announced the launch of its Video Games Hits Monitor, a quarterly
tracking service that provides an in-depth view of video game
title-level consumer information. The new service gives retailers,
manufacturers and publishers the ability to better understand the
demographic and geographic profiles of gamers owning and playing their
products, as well those of their competitors .
Developed for those in the video game industry trying to
understand ownership demographics, profiles , playing habits and
purchasing habits for individual games titles, Video Games Hits
Monitor complements NPD's existing base of consumer information on the
latest purchases of video game software and platforms . NPD
provides critical knowledge on what is selling, where, to whom and why
to help our clients make more successful, fact-based business
decisions.

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Some of the many innovative features of "RYL: Path of the Emperor"
include:

-- True Player vs. Guild Wars
-- Customized Character Creation
-- Become the Emperor and Rule the Land
-- Hundreds of Quests
-- Compelling and Intuitive Combat System
-- Innovative, Customizable "Skill System"
-- Upgradeable and Limitless Armor and Weapons System
-- Build Fortresses
-- Raise a Virtual Dragon for Battle
-- Create Flying Siege Gliders
-- Commandeer Battering Rams
-- Persistent Universe
-- Thousands of Miles of Terrain
-- Virtual Real Estate Ownership

About Planetwide Games

Based in Costa Mesa, CA, Planetwide Games (a Bluetorch On-Line Games, Inc. focus, NPD also tracks video games in the
Canadian market.

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company) is establishing itself as a provider of leading online video game
entertainment.
The new service examines the installed base of platform and title
ownership and use, attitudes and motivators, demographic profiles and
much more. offline usage, item-specific customer
satisfaction, owner and player profiles, and future purchase intent of
new releases.

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"This strategic product leverages the strength of the NPD Consumer
Panel to a greater degree and complements the Funworld Games portfolio
as it addresses a very specific need for our more sophisticated and
strategic clients," said Ow.

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Since 1967, The NPD Group has provided reliable and comprehensive
sales and marketing information for a wide range of industries.