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Disney Online, a division of the Walt Disney Internet Group, today announced that they are developing a MMORPG based upon the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Players will be able to organize their own pirate crew and create their own custom character. Crews will compete with each other and with undead pirates in order to be the most infamous pirate of them all. Access to the game will be available online (no game disc purchase required) and players will pay a monthly fee in order to play.

"We've learned through our experience with Toontown that the market for massively multiplayer online role-playing games can indeed reach beyond traditional gamers," stated Ken Goldstein, EVP and managing director, Disney Online. "Pirates of the Caribbean is the perfect franchise for our second commercial effort in this arena. Fans of the movies and theme park attraction will be able to live their own unfolding pirate adventure through the game, including searching for lost treasures and battling numerous enemies on land and at sea."

"This is a great way for game enthusiasts to experience the fun and excitement of playing the role of a pirate while competing against a wide variety of opponents in a great adventure," added Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. "This game captures the same swashbuckling sense of humor, spirit and action that moviegoers loved in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, and which will continue with the next installment of the highly anticipated sequel in summer 2006. Disney Online has created a really entertaining and challenging game that will appeal to the adventurer in all of us."

The Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG will debut in the Summer of 2006, coinciding with the theatrical release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.