



[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]

LAND O'LAKES, FLORIDA - March 15, 2012 – Artix Entertainment, the indie game development studio that creates and publishes download-free, browser-based games, announced today that it has reached a major milestone: over 150 million registered players across all its games. The company was founded in 2002 by Adam Bohn. Adam's original goal was to make a game and get 100 players to play it. His first game, AdventureQuest, quickly met and exceeded that goal. Over the next several years, the company's player base grew quickly and steadily as Adam developed more flash-based browser games. Today, Artix Entertainment has several successful games including AdventureQuest Worlds, DragonFable, MechQuest, EpicDuel, HeroSmash, and the original AdventureQuest. Adam and the Artix team have updated each game every week since its launch – a Herculean task for any studio. In 2010, Artix Entertainment announced it had reached the 100-million-player milestone. A short two years later, the company's player-base has grown to 150 million registered players -- a growth rate of over 70,000 new players daily. "When they ran the database query and gave me the number, I was shocked," said Adam Bohn, CEO and founder of Artix Entertainment. "I'm really proud of the teams and grateful that so many players are enjoying our games." For more information about Artix Entertainment please visit www.Artix.com Other Games from Artix Entertainment Artix Entertainment offers many RPG and MMO titles, ranging from the fantasy realms of AdventureQuest, DragonFable, and the MMORPG AdventureQuest Worlds to the sci-fi galaxies of MechQuest and EpicDuel, the superhero MMORPG HeroSmash, and the puzzle-based Pony vs Pony. Artix has enjoyed a high success rate in the past nine years with over 150 million accounts created for their games. For more information about our games, please visit: AdventureQuest Worlds at www.aq.com DragonFable at www.dragonfable.com EpicDuel at www.epicduel.com HeroSmash at www.herosmash.com MechQuest at www.mechquest.com AdventureQuest at www.battleon.com Pony vs Pony at www.ponyvspony.com Artix Entertainment games at http://portal.battleon.com and HeroMart at www.HeroMart.com You can follow or friend Artix on… Twitter: http://twitter.com/artixkrieger/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artix # # # About Artix Entertainment Artix Entertainment LLC, is a privately held, game development and publishing studio that specializes in creating online, browser-based, anime-style, role-playing Flash games with a distinctive visual style and high-quality game play. Artix has developed a range of games with storylines that are based in the fantasy, sci-fi, and adventure genre. Content within the games is updated on a weekly basis creating a compelling experience which keeps users coming back frequently for new content and story lines. Artix core offerings are three online RPG games: AdventureQuest, DragonFable, and MechQuest, three MMORPGs: AdventureQuest Worlds, EpicDuel, and HeroSmash, and the puzzle-based game Pony vs Pony. Players can visit www.artix.com for more information.