LOS ANGELES – Dec. 9, 2003 – Atari and Artifact Entertainment today announced that Horizons: Empire of Istaria, one of the most closely followed and highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Available now for PC CD-ROM, Horizons will allow players to experience online gaming like never before in a massive, ever-changing, online world primed for exploration, brimming with adventure and rife with danger. For the first time in a MMORPG, players will have the opportunity to experience the power and might of ancient dragons as a playable character race. In addition, Humans, fiends, dwarves, elves, gnomes, as well as the cat-like Saris and the reptilian Sslik, round out the first nine playable races available in the game.