Giant Interactive’s Long Journey 2S Beta Breaks 500,000 Players Online At Once
The Long Journey series has been one of China's most popular MMORPGs for some time. The most recent game, Long Journey 2 has been no exception, and now an updated version of Giant Interactive's (NYSE:GA) popular game seems poised to continue the tradition.The updated version, which is called Long Journey 2S, has been in public beta for just one week, but on the evening of the twentieth, more than 530,000 players were online at once, according to Giant Interactive representatives. Interestingly, this breaks Giant's previous record for players online at ...
Taiwan’s Weibao Digital Spends $2 Million, Becomes Exclusive Operator of Shenxian Zhuan
China's The9 (NASDAQ:NCTY) announced this morning that Taiwan Weibao Digital has purchased the rights to be the exclusive Taiwan and Hong Kong operator of The9's hit MMORPG game Shenxian Zhuan for $2 million.The fantasy game, which features buxom ladies like the one pictured at right, is quite popular on the mainland, so $2 million isn't as crazy-large a figure as it might seem for the right to operate the game in two other big culturally-Chinese gaming markets.It's still a big number, though. In fact, it's the largest sum paid ...
Singapore’s RealU Releases First Gameplay Trailer for Otherland
Are you a fan of MMORPGs who's looking for something a bit less, erm, Warcrafty than what's out there right now? Singapore's RealU has got you covered. They're working on an MMO based on Tad William's Otherland series -- which I've never read -- they've just released the project's first gameplay trailer.As you can see, Otherland definitely looks different (although the dubstep soundtrack is quickly becoming standard fare for game trailers these days). It also looks pretty; that's because it's made using a custom build of the Unreal 3 ...
The Old Republic Launches in Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1
The Old Republic, Bioware's latest MMO and the best recent shot at World of Warcraft's crown, is coming to Asia. Specifically, the game will launch March 1 in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Through digital download, some gamers in those regions may have purchased the game already and begun playing it on American or European servers, but Bioware says those players will have "a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st."Previously on Penn Olson, we ...
Rift is Coming to China
Other Western game developers seem to be finally realizing what Blizzard has known for years -- if you've got a massively-multiplayer fantasy game, there's money to be made in China. Rift -- a game which distinguishes itself from the competition via the eponymous rifts, massive in-game events that spice up the gameplay -- has found success in the Western online gaming market since its release to positive reviews last spring. Now, it's coming to China, too.Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) will distribute the game for developers Trion Worlds, although from the press ...
No Choice But to Mine: One World of Warcraft Ore Miner’s Story
Among Western World of Warcraft players, "gold farming" and other kinds of mining -- grinding out in-game resources in MMORPGs and selling those resources to gamers for real money -- are often looked on unkindly. Often, and not without good reason, "gold farming" is associated with China, and Youtube is full of videos like "Chinese Gold Farmers Must Die" (warning: contains music by Beck), which showcases vigilante gamers hunting down and killing off gold farmers.Complaints about their effect on the game world and the in-game economy may be valid, but ...
Giant Interactive’s “Long Journey 2″ Hits Over 400,000 Players Online at One Time
Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA) has achieved quite a bit of success with its Long Journey online games. Both the original game and its sequel, Long Journey 2, are 2D MMORPGs that mix fantasy with bits of Chinese history, and they've met with quite a bit of interest from Chinese gamers.How much interest? Giant Interactive announced that Long Journey 2 had over 430,000 players online at one time this past Saturday. The company had just opened a new area of the game for public beta the day before, so it wasn't just ...
In Chinese Online Gaming, 8.7 Billion RMB in Revenue, Tencent Still King
New figures for Q2 2011 show which Chinese tech companies get the biggest slice of the online gaming market in China, in terms of revenue. Total revenue in the industry is 8.7 billion RMB (US$1.36 bil), which is up 3.1 percent on the previous quarter.Tencent is still the online and social gaming king in China, with its broad spread of titles - from numerous QQ games, to its Zynga CityVille tie-up, to the 3D first-person shooter Crossfire (pictured above). It took 29.5 percent of all online gaming revenue in the ...
US$80 Million 3D Online Game Rolls Out to Chinese Gamers
Today Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU) and online game developer Changyou (NASDAQ:CYOU) flipped the switch on a brand-new, 3D multiplayer online game called The Deer and the Cauldron. Sohu's president, Mr Chen De-wen, boasts that it's the world's first 3D online game with a Hollywood-standard 3D animation engine.Launched into beta at 11am this morning for access to some of China's keenest gamers, the online game - based on a 1960s book that recounts ancient Zhou dynasty myths - took four years to develop, at a reported cost of US$80 million. The game features ...
A Look Inside China’s Netease – Juggling Online Games, Search, and Microblogging
To Chinese web users NetEase is known as a web portal, email provider, and operator of MMORPGs World of Warcraft and the Westward Journey series (pictured).To investors, Netease is NASDAQ: NTES - and one of the first Chinese web/tech IPOs, way back in 1999.Though its web portal - at 163.com - has millions of monthly visitors, it's gaming that makes up the bulk of Netease's revenue.Indeed, this detailed look 'Inside Netease' (see the slideshow below) made by the folks at iChinaStock reveals that 87.4 percent of revenue comes from online ...
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