Risk Your Life in Open Beta Company: Planetwide Games Product: Risk Your Life Planetwide Games has announced 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) has gone into open beta phase for North America. Planetwide Games will operate open beta for a limited time only until the golden launch date of March 1, 2005. RYL: Path of the Emperor currently has more than 8.2 million online players worldwide. In 2003, 88 million people played online games worldwide, and 198 million are expected to be playing online games by 2008. 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. RYL Founders Guild Members will receive the chance of a lifetime to receive unique and special privileges when they choose from four different offer packages. Some benefits of becoming a RYL Founders Guild Member include locked-in, discounted ?for life? subscription rates, MP3 Players, and additional months of game play for free. ?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. ?b>RYL: Path of the Emperor is the first fantasy MMORPG to be comprised of true Player vs. Player and Guild vs. Guild action. No other video game has been able to provide definitive PVP gameplay or pure Guild vs. Guild battles. This next generation video game delivers all of this including a 100% realistic 3D persistent universe complete with ever changing weather/environmental effects.? RYL: Path of the Emperor is a persistent universe or role-playing game (RPG). In the game, players assume the role of a Warrior, Cleric, Mage, and Assassin, or choose from 20 classes and explore the many exotic locations within boundless miles of terrain and virtual real estate. 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. Guild duels, buy, sell, and trade virtual merchandise, build fortresses, and even raise their own Dragon. Lastly, RYL players have the ultimate gaming reward to become the actual emperor and rule over the land. Interested players for open beta can view a trailer of the game and download the RYL: Path of the Emperor game for free at the bottom of the screen. -Starscream, GameVortex Communications AKA Ricky Tucker Related Links: Risk Your Life Official Site Planetwide Games