THE STATION ACCESS™ COLLECTION BRINGS TOGETHER FIVE HIT ONLINE GAMES IN ONE BOX FOR ONE LOW PRICE

SAN DIEGO, CA - March 14, 2006 - Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a global leader in the online games industry, today announced that the Station Access Collection, a bundled anthology that includes the top online PC games published or developed by SOE to date, is now shipping to retail. The Station Access Collection will carry a suggested retail price of $39.99.

The Station Access Collection brings together all of SOE's hit online PC titles in one collection. Included in the package are EverQuest® Evolution, EverQuest® II, The Matrix Online and PlanetSide® Aftershock, as well as Star Wars Galaxies®, developed in conjunction with LucasArts. The collection will include 30-day trials for new players of each of the five games, allowing them to play with hundreds of thousands of other people around the globe. The Station Access Collection will only be available on DVD-ROM.

EverQuest Evolution - Immerse yourself in what hundreds of thousands have already experienced, a land with no limits to the imagination, where excitement and myth reign supreme. EverQuest Evolution includes the original EQ along with the first five expansions to the game.

EverQuest II - EverQuest II is the next generation of massively multiplayer gaming, a huge online world where thousands of players come together for adventure and community. Featuring breathtaking graphics and a vast, beautiful game world to explore, EverQuest II sets the standard for graphical realism as players are immersed in the game's exciting locales and dangerous lands.

PlanetSide Aftershock - The complete PlanetSide collection, which features the original game, the Core Combat expansion pack, and BattleFrame Robotics. Experience intense online action in the form of infantry assaults, ground-based vehicles mobilizations, and dynamic air battles, as you join one of three empires and engage your enemies in large-scale battles and tactical base assaults for total control of the planetary continents of Auraxis.

The Matrix Online - Continuing the saga of the movie trilogy, players of The Matrix Online will inhabit an enormous urban sprawl, which spreads for miles in all directions. There are subways, nightclubs, skyscrapers, and dark alleys that all seem normal on the surface, but beneath this pedestrian exterior, a secret war is being waged for the survival of humanity and Machine alike.

Star Wars Galaxies - Immerse yourself in Star Wars® in a way you've only dreamed! Star Wars Galaxies is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Star Wars universe that lets players live the movies with thousands of other players from around the world. The Station Access Collection includes the original Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided as well as the first expansion, Jump to Lightspeed.

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