"Uru Live" Lives!

Taken from www.urulive.com

Uru Live Press Release
May 8th, 2006

"URU LIVE" LIVES ON EXCLUSIVELY AT GAMETAP

Online, multiplayer version of blockbuster game resurfaces on GameTap,
with real-time 3D and new episodic content

LOS ANGELES - E3 - (May 9, 2006) - "Uru Live" lives! GameTap, the
broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
(TBS, Inc.), is reviving the online foray of "Myst", one of the most
popular adventure series ever created. As part of GameTap's bold new
initiative, the "Uru Live" game and community will be available to
GameTap subscribers later this year as part of their monthly
subscription.

"Uru Live" is the online multiplayer version of "Uru: Ages Beyond
Myst," which was developed by Cyan Worlds. Extensively beta-tested in
2003, "Uru Live" spawned an avid community of players, many of whom
have kept unofficial sites up and running ever since. With the advent
of broadband gaming, there is a whole new medium and a ready audience
for this revered title. Unlike its predecessors, the new worlds of
"Uru Live" are dynamic and alive, making use of real-time 3D rather
than still images to bring players together online to explore
incredible new worlds. To keep "Uru Live" even more fresh and
challenging, GameTap and Cyan will update the game with new episodic
content on a regular basis.

"The epic journey to D'ni will begin anew this holiday season on
GameTap," said Stuart Snyder, GameTap's General Manager. "We are
bringing back 'Uru Live' with new episodes, intriguing new worlds to
explore, and a host of fresh features. 'Uru Live' was ahead of its
time, and now that technology has caught up with this visionary game,
GameTap and Cyan are teaming up to bring it into the bold new world of
broadband entertainment."

"Uru Live" is part of the popular "Myst" series created by Rand and
Robyn Miller. Selling more than 12 million units, it was the
top-selling video game franchise of the 1990s. In fact, it is credited
with creating a whole new genre of games, the first-person
adventure-puzzle game.

"Uru Live" will join the more than 500 on-demand video games and 300
streaming video channels now available on GameTap.

To register for GameTap, visit www.gametap.com where you can sign up
for the leading all-you-can-play-&-watch video game lifestyle
broadband network for $9.95 per month. Go to www.gametap.com now and
sign up for a free two-week offer.

About Cyan Worlds, Inc:

Cyan Worlds, Inc., located in Spokane, WA, is best know for Myst and
Riven, which received numerous awards, critical acclaim and broad
popularity, Cyan has been designing and building immersive interactive
worlds since 1987. They currently employ over 40 designers,
programmers and artists. For more information about Cyan Worlds, visit
www.cyanworlds.com

About GameTap

GameTap delivers hundreds of the greatest games-on-demand plus
original programming via a broadband-connected PC. To access GameTap,
players securely download and install Turner-developed client software
from www.gametap.com that acts as a gateway to the GameTap vault.
Because games reside securely on the PC, not across a network, they
act just as if they were still on the console or at the arcade. Fast
response times, 3D effects, colors, and characters are all present and
accounted for. New games and original programming will be added to the
service each week. GameTap supports navigation and game play using
keyboard and mouse, as well as most USB peripherals.

About Turner

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a Time Warner company,
is a major producer of news and entertainment products around the
world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable
industry.
CONTACT:
Chase/Beth Gardiner/Misty Skedgell
Access Communications for GameTap TBS, Inc.
415-844-6289/917-522-3522 404-885-4396
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Personal message from Rand Miller
May 8th, 2006
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

Fellow fans and adventure seekers,
Uru has been quite an adventure for us. After pouring everything we
had into our vision back in 2002, Uru Live was abruptly cancelled.
There have been several fits and starts since then - various attempts
to keep the vision alive. The most notable was Until Uru - a
continuation of Uru Live that put its future directly into the hands
of the fans. The fans didn't let us down.
Although the fans were able to bide their time in the ancient
underground city and distant Ages, not much changed. There were huge
expanses to explore and share, but the full vision of Uru Live was
designed to be dynamic and changing - providing new story and places
to explore all the time. Now, with some help from our forward thinking
friends at Turner/GameTap, we're pleased to announce that we're ready
to bring Uru Live back to life.
We have been furiously toiling behind the scenes to write some
interesting new content that will make its way into Uru Live in the
coming months. We've also been working on the nuts and bolts -
rebuilding our software and servers to clean up bugs and lag and to
provide a base for cutting-edge improvements in the future.
This new adventure is not without caveats. We're smaller and leaner
now. We have much more to do with fewer people to do it. But we're
trying to work smart to provide new content that provides fresh new
adventure for everyone on a regular basis.
So here we go again into exciting unknown territory. Little did we
know that the opening lines of Myst would be so prophetic.
Thanks so much for all of your encouragement and support,
Rand Miller