Matrix Games and Playnet today announced they obtained the rights for distributing World War II Online: Battleground Europe in the US, via the Matrix Games Online Store. The game world of Battleground Europe is set in the years 1940 through 1942 and includes Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of Holland, Germany, France and England, with the current game map measuring over 354,000 square miles and featuring more than 36,000 strategic objects such as factories, city buildings, bunkers and bridges placed among 4,000+ facilities in 450 cities and towns. Release is scheduled for mid-December, 2005.