"We are very pleased to hear about Shrouded Isles' outstanding sales in Europe and look forward to the response from people around the globe to our state-of-the-art graphics and amazing visual effects," said Mark Jacobs, president, Mythic Entertainment. "Dark Age of Camelot gives online players the ultimate online collaborative game experience and based on both our continuing efforts and that of our partner Wanadoo, it's going to continue to be the benchmark for growth within the industry."

Wanadoo said the European community for Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot continues to expand steadily, with 30,000 or more simultaneous players at peak times.

"Shrouded Isles is a tremendous addition to Dark Age of Camelot. We see nothing but more growth for this product," said Jean-Marc Steffann, portals division director, Wanadoo.

Shrouded Isles extends the story and enhances the action of Dark Age of Camelot with new character classes, new races and three new continents, displayed in an all-new graphics engine. The expansion also features a revamped user-interface and an all-new ambient music system that randomly constructs musical expressions based on the player's location and the time of day. Graphical improvements include almost 100 new monster models and almost 400 new weapon, armour and shield graphics.

Shrouded Isles also has many new quests, thousands of new monster encounters and an innovative artificial intelligence system enabling monsters to behave and attack in deadly new ways.

More than 600,000 people have played Dark Age of Camelot worldwide. The title is known for its opportunities for collaboration, evidenced by the fact that more than 60,000 people around the world have played simultaneously at peak times

Currently Dark Age of Camelot has more than 220,000 subscribers.

Dark Age of Camelot has become one of the most acclaimed online games of all time; Gamespot gave the game 9.1 out of 10 and named it Multiplayer Role Playing Game of the Year and one of the top 10 PC games of 2001; USA Today and MSNBC both named the game PC Top Game of the Year; PC Gamer awarded the game their Editors' Choice award and 90% rating; Computer Gaming World awarded it their Editors' Choice and four and half stars out of five. It was also awarded the best online game of 2001 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

Dark Age of Camelot and Shrouded Isles were developed by Mythic Entertainment and co-published with Abandon Entertainment.