Keith Baker,who originally won a contest to design the new campaign setting,was invited by Turbine to write "all-new stories" for the game Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach.

TURBINE TAPS EBERRON? CREATOR KEITH BAKER FOR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE?: STORMREACH?

- Baker to Develop All-New Stories for Turbine�s Popular MMOG -

LYON, FRANCE � 2 May 2006 � Atari and Turbine announced today that Keith Baker, the original creator of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS? Eberron? campaign setting, will pen additional storylines and works of fiction for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE?: Stormreach?. The game is the first massively multiplayer online (MMO) roleplaying game based upon the iconic world of D&D?. Developed by Turbine, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach is published in Europe by Atari and operated by Codemasters Online Gaming. The property is under license from the Hasbro Properties Group, the intellectual property development arm of Hasbro.

�Keith Baker is the creative genius behind Eberron, the setting for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach. His fiction is sure to engage and entertain our players in the months to come,� said Jeffrey Anderson, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. �We are delighted to be working with him.�

A long-time fantasy devotee and game designer, Keith Baker�s breakthrough occurred when he entered a contest in 2002 held by Wizards of the Coast, maker of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS roleplaying game and a subsidiary of Hasbro. The contest sought an innovative concept for a new world in which fans could play DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Chosen from more than 11,000 submissions, Baker�s Eberron world won the contest and became Wizards of the Coast‘s setting for the third edition of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, as well as the setting for DDO. Baker also published his first novel, City of Towers, which released in February 2005, to critical acclaim.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach brings the essence of the classic pen-and-paper roleplaying experience - with an emphasis on small party-based dungeon crawling adventures - to the PC. Authentic features in the game include customisable characters; dungeons filled with devious traps; monsters and stories from the Eberron campaign setting; an on-screen d20 (20-sided die) and a dungeon master. The unique online world of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE represents a new paradigm for the MMO genre with unique features including party-based quests, integrated voice chat, real-time action combat, and award-winning graphics.