"Beta testing is key to ensuring that our customers have the top-notch, quality entertainment that they have come to expect from SOE," said Michael Lustenberger, director of product marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. "With the help of our Beta testers, we will be able to tune EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers for maximum enjoyment, turning it into another exciting addition to the EverQuest universe."

The EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers Beta begins August 18 and will run through mid-September. Beta testers will be the first players to explore the new land areas of Tunaria, and they are crucial in the development process of the game. Sony Online Entertainment relies on Beta testers for feedback on gameplay mechanics and to ensure that the storyline is cohesive and engaging. For more information on the EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers Beta test, please visit right here.

About EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers

With intricate character development, continuous player interaction and a strong sense of community, EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers brings PlayStation 2 gamers into a vast online world filled with thousands of other players. The second edition will add more than 162 square miles of uncharted territories to explore, from the beautiful red rock canyons of Odus to the treacherous lava streams in Lavastorm. Frontiers also adds graphically enhanced player models and armor, allowing for greater character customization than ever before. EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers also features:

• Unlimited action - no boundaries to this huge living world
• 10 races and 15 classes to choose from
• New class mastery system
• Redesigned and highly-detailed player character models, armor and pets
• New playable race, the Ogre. These massive beings can be both brutal warriors and can wield powerful magic
• A new cast of fierce non-playable characters to battle such as the Nagas, Faun and Couatl
• Thousands of new items to discover, create, trade and sell
• Challenging new quests to conquer
• Expanded content for high-level characters - up to level 60
• Special communications and travel features help people find each other in the game so they can spend more time having fun
• New character class, the Alchemist
• 3 new cities, 24 gigantic dungeons and a new continent brings the size of the game world to a gigantic 500 virtual square miles
• Unparalleled character customization for players to create their own unique hero or villain
• Persistent online game world with new content added regularly