World War II Meets Online Game World

Bedford, TX, November 14th, 2003:

World War II Magazine, has teamed up with Playnet.com to offer an exclusive 14-day free trial of the massively multiplayer game, 'World War II Online'.

World War II, the largest and most authoritative magazine devoted to the Second World War, presents the stories of the men and their missions, the commanders and their strategies, the great battles and little-known aspects of the 20th century's defining conflict. The magazine and its unmatched content that so vividly brings history to life is a perfect complement for the first and only massively multiplayer WWII simulation. Readers of the magazine can now log on and fight with the weapons and equipment of the period and battle over the same territory online with and against thousands of others players at the same time.

"We are thrilled to connect World War II readers with our online simulation", said Playnet Marketing Manager Al Corey. "We have thousands of players who are already amateur historians but we also see young people wanting to learn more about the history of the Second World War after playing our game. 'World War II Online' is not a shoot 'em up game but closer to a simulation of the era with military-grade physics, damage and ballistics applied to realistic weapon and vehicle models providing players a challenging gameplay experience found nowhere else."

"We know many of our more than 150,000 readers enjoy strategy and simulation games, utilizing the knowledge of the true history gained by reading our magazine in their game playing," said Primedia History Group Editorial Director Roger L. Vance. "We are delighted to work with one of the most authentic and accurate game makers and introduce our readers to this product."

This exclusive World War II Magazine offer provides everyone a free download of the game client and unrestricted access to the virtual battlefield of 'World War II Online' for a 14-day FREE trial. Visit WWIIonline.com for details.

ABOUT WWII ONLINE

'World War II Online' is a combined arms, online simulation set in a relentless, action-packed 3D environment where players can command and crew a variety of accurately modeled vehicles, naval vessels and aircraft and sling weapons to fight as foot soldiers with and against thousands of other gamers. 'World War II Online' is the first and still the only massively multiplayer first-person virtual battlefield that covers a ½ scale map of Europe with accurate terrain modeling. It allows players to fight alongside British, French and German forces 24/7 in a persistent world in which character advancement and career paths provide a rich RPG layer and strategic systems are driven by player missions and command structures. 'World War II Online' has received numerous industry press awards including GameSpy's 2001 Gamers' Choice Sim of the Year and IGN's 2001 Persistent World Game of the Year. Visit WWIIonline.com for details.

ABOUT PLAYNET

Playnet, Inc. is an Internet technology company with patent-pending technologies (networking software, middleware, application development tools, and back-end support systems). Playnet specializes in design and development of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) at its internal software design studio, Cornered Rat Software (CRS), and its Playnet.com division operates a web-based hosting service designed to accommodate the needs of online gamers and their communities for its own and 3rd-party game titles.

ABOUT WORLD WAR II MAGAZINE

From the world's largest publisher of history magazines, Primedia History Group, World War II is nearing its 20th year as the leading, most-read publication devoted to the Second World War. In response to an ever-growing demand for its outstanding content from leading historians, writers and the riveting eyewitness accounts from veterans themselves, World War II is expanding from its current seven issues a year to an annual 10-issue publication schedule in 2004. World War II is one of the 10 History Group magazines, including American History, America's Civil War, Aviation History, British Heritage, Civil War Times, Military History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vietnam and Wild West.