Iron Realms launches new portal for text-based MMORPGs

 IronRealms Entertainment just put up a redesigned site to support their free text-based MMORPG offerings. 

 “We take the ‘gameplay over graphics’ mantra very seriously,” said Matt Mihaly, CEO of Iron Realms.  “Our games offer a level of immersion unrivaled by even the most popular of the graphical online games on the market.”

With tens of thousands of players and growing, gamers around the world are already making a bold statement about the importance of a ‘virtual world’ over an ‘online game.’

Full press release follows...
 

IRON REALMS LAUNCHES NEW PORTAL
The Leader in Text-Based MMORPG’s Takes Bold New Steps


SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – July 27th, 2005 – IronRealms Entertainment, an independent developer and publisher of text-based massively multiplayer online games, today announced a redesign of its portal website located at http://www.ironrealms.com.  Iron Realms Entertainment has been a leader in the industry for years, producing some of the most popular and advanced online text-based role-playing games in the world, without any subscription fees at all.

“We take the ‘gameplay over graphics’ mantra very seriously,” said Matt Mihaly, CEO of Iron Realms.  “Our games offer a level of immersion unrivaled by even the most popular of the graphical online games on the market.”

With tens of thousands of players and growing, gamers around the world are already making a bold statement about the importance of a ‘virtual world’ over an ‘online game.’

Their already-popular current lineup of games include: Achaea: Dreams of Divine Lands, Aetolia: The Midnight Age, Imperian: The Sundered Heavens, and Lusternia: Age of Ascension, and they have begun development on the still-to-be-titled game based on the works of best-selling fantasy author Raymond E. Feist and his world of Midkemia.

Achaea is Iron Realms' most venerable game world, having opened to the public in 1997. Since then, it has gone on to become the most lauded text MMO in existence. The G4 network called it "fascinating" and "addictive." John Romero, the co-creator of Doom and Quake, said, he "doesn't believe there is another game in existence with this much depth."

Midnight has fallen on the world of Aetolia. From every corner of the land, factions of darkness rise to challenge each other in epic struggles for supremacy. Amid the gathering darkness, the faithful of the light stand unwavering, defying the toll of midnight through sheer force of will.

Imperian is a world where the forces of magick war with those who oppose its use, where under the combined gaze of the three splinter moons, mortal-kind struggles to flourish upon the world of Aetherius, a landscape wrought with the hammer of war and honed by the ambitions of man.; a world which has been called "nothing short of astounding" and which is considered to be at the top of the industry.

Lusternia is the most recent addition to the Iron Realms, and has already established itself as one of the top text MMO’s in the world. Step through the Portal of Fate and embark upon a journey fantastic in a multi-planar universe rich in history and myth. It is the Age of Ascension, a time when great deeds give birth to legends.

About Iron Realms Entertainment
Iron Realms Entertainment is a leading developer of text-based MMORPGs and a pioneer in alternative business models, based in Mill Valley, CA.