Camelot cracks 200,000

Mythic Entertainment has announced that Dark Age of Camelot, its online role-playing game, now has more than 200,000 active subscribers. The game, which was first launched in October 2001, lets players create and play as a character in a medieval fantasy world torn by a war between three main factions. In January, Mythic announced that the game had surpassed Asheron's Call, Microsoft's online fantasy role-playing game, in terms of subscribers, to become the third most popular online role-playing game based in North America behind Sony's EverQuest and EA's Ultima Online. At 200,000 subscribers, Camelot now has almost half as many subscribers as EverQuest, which was launched more than two and a half years earlier.

Mythic plans to launch the game in South Korea, the world's largest online role-playing game market, this summer. The company launched the game in France, the UK, and Germany earlier this year. For more information, take a look at our full review of the game.