SAGA,a new MMORTS developed by Wahoo Studios and StarCraft: Brood War programmer Dallan Christensen, has announced the alpha beta has launched, they also confirmed the open beta will be released in this spring.

Orem, UT, January 10, 2007 ¨C SAGA is a new Massively-Multiplayer Online Real-time Strategy (MMORTS) game from Wahoo Studios. The development team has been led for over a year by veteran programmer Dallan Christensen, known for his role as lead programmer on Starcraft: Brood War.

¡°It¡¯s been a challenge, but the concept has huge potential,¡± says Dallan, sporting a hunting cap, lit only by the glow of a half-dozen computer screens. ¡°We¡¯re blazing a lot of trails, doing a lot of things that have never been done before in the RTS genre. But at this point we¡¯re pretty much there¡ªwe¡¯ve succeeded in delivering the SAGA game design we set out to achieve.¡±

¡°Players are already hooked,¡± says Saga creator Jason Faller. ¡°Trading and collecting online armies is creating the high stakes and excitement that we believed it would. The market system, the espionage, and the online guild wars will really heat up in a week or two when we admit the first thousand players.¡±

Saga has just launched an html version of their website, www.playsaga.com.

¡°After many thousands of website hits, we saw an increasing number of requests for an html version of the site. It doesn¡¯t have all the bells and whistles of the Flash site, but it still tells you what Saga is,¡± says producer Andrew Grierson.

Saga is slated for Beta release in Spring 2007. Visit www.playsaga.com to learn more, or to sign up for alpha/beta testing.

About Saga ¨C Saga is a persistent world RTS in an epic fantasy setting. Players collect troops, build armies, conquer new lands and build up kingdoms, complete with resource collection, city building and peasant management. Saga¡¯s features include massive armies, multiplayer questing, an auction house for trading troops and spells, guild wars and espionage.

Saga has no subscription fees. Players pay as little or as much as they decide, by purchasing ¡®booster packs¡¯ of random troops and spells, which are traded and customized to create the strategic army of choice for each player.

About Wahoo Studios, Inc. - Wahoo Studios is a leading independent developer of PC and console games. Based in Orem, Utah, Wahoo Studios has worked with the top game publishers, creating outstanding titles for all age groups and all platforms.