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OurGame to focus on board games, to enter web games industry

August 2nd, 2011 daniel

OurGame released its two year plan on July 30. The company will focus on developing board games and will enter web games industry. Ourgame’s CEO Guoliang Woo and co-CEO Qin Yang attended the strategy conference.

After the exchange of shares at the beginning of this year, Ourgame has rarely appeared in public. Since Beijing Wade WoFu Investment Co., Ltd. formally acquired all the shares of OurGame held by Haihong Holdings NHN Korea, Guoliang Woo has become the CEO and Qin Yang has become the co-CEO of OurGame.

Yang said thanks to the acquisition, OurGame now has come back to a rapid development track. OurGame has decided to focus on its core leisure and business board games and to shake off other businesses. OurGame is also deepening its relationship with Internet portals, esp. social network platforms, hoping to expand its web game and mobile game businesses.

Yang said the OurGame is a completely new born now and they will cooperate with their partners to provide more good games to the players.

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Joyport’s webgame Sacred Shevalier licensed to Japan

July 28th, 2011 daniel

Hangzhou-based Joyport’s webgame Crystal War has a combination of SLG and RPG. The game was highly praised since its debut in 2010 for the unique western graphics, storyline and gameplay.

Recently, Joyport claimed that Crystal War 2 would premiere in Japan with the new name Sacred Shevalier (“Shevalier” is a special term, meaning an “S” chevalier).

It is said that the game’s characters were designed by several Japanese master illustrators. The game will be operated by Gamania Japan.

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Kunlun Corporation acts as Perfect World’s new webgame exclusive agent

July 22nd, 2011 daniel

China’s famous web-game developer Kunlun Corporation has announced the exclusive operation of Perfect World’s 2D MMORG Ying Hao in 2011Q3 recently. The game is mainly about legends of Kongfu masters based on the Song Dynasty in China’s ancient history.

This is the first time for Perfect World to allow other companies to operator its games, and it is said the agency fee is 15 million RMB (We believe the actual fee is far less than that). Giant has also announced shifting the sole agency of one client game to Zqgame this month. Most of these games are invested by listed companies.

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Tencent Web Game Qi-Xiong Hegemony has closed beta test, to be released on Discuz

July 21st, 2011 daniel

Tencent’s web game Qi-Xiong Hegemony (七雄争霸) started beta test on July 19. Now the game has closed beta test and will be officially released on Discuz platform, which has been acquired by Tencent and will take 50% of the game revenue.

The current Baidu search volume of the game has not changed very much, which is probably for increasing game income. Tencent is hoping Discuz could enlarge its income ASAP and make the best use of its “Long Tail Advantage”. Web games are the best choice for Discuz’s commercialization and Tencent’s entering into BBS and community websites in China.

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Baitian launched Children’s Card Web Game Ao Ya Zhi Guang

July 21st, 2011 daniel

Baitian Guangzhou launched its Children’s Card Web Game Ao Ya Zhi Guang for children aged 8 to 15 last week. The game play combines card combating, career changing, avatar decoration and pets domestication, etc.

Baitian has already launched three Children’s Cartoon Web Game Obi Island, Aulas Star and Dragon Fighter. The main competitors of the company are Tencent and Taomee, the latter was listed on NYSE earlier this year. Baitian received 30 million RMB from Sequoia Capital in 2009.

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Snail Games to launch nautical themed web game Voyage Century

July 20th, 2011 daniel

After releasing a Sino-Russia jointly developed game Mihu-Man, Snail Games is eager to launch a nautical themed web game, Voyage Century web. The game will be displayed as one of Snail’s best games in Chinajoy 2011.

Voyage Century web is a sequel web version of Snail’s 3D online game Voyage Century. The gameplay and graphics in Voyage Century web are very similar to it’s elder brother.

Besides, Voyage Century web has it’s own player community and interactive system.

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Snail Games to launch web game Mihu-Man

July 19th, 2011 daniel

Snail Games (Suzhou Snail Electronic Co., Ltd.) recently released a new web game, Mihu-Man. The funny casual web game was jointly developed with Russian game company MentalGames.

An important feature of Mihu-Man is that the game is divided into a real world and a dreamy world (GL: like the Avatar).

In the real world, each player is an ordinary white-collar worker. The tiredness of work and the reproach from boss could generate special combat skills in the dreamy world.

While in the dreamy world, players can throw away all real world troubles and become a Kungfu master. Vice verse, all the actions in the dreamy world would influence players’ real world behavior.

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Shanda Games Launched Light Web Game Studio “UUGame”

July 15th, 2011 daniel

Shanda Games announced that they had launched its own light web game studio “UUGame” yesterday, which is seen as another important progress of Shanda’s “3A” (All-Star, All-Platform, and All-Region) strategy.Shanda Games‘s CEO Qun Zhao said:”Shanda is making every effort to enter into all gaming platforms, including social and mobile games.”UUGame is mainly developing web games and social games. Comparing to traditional web game studios, UUGame has the advantage of non-client and cloud computing. Their games also focus more on entertaining and social contact. UUGame has developed 10 games and they will be released soon.

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Japan’s SRPG Webgame Metal SAGA Launched on Renren

July 14th, 2011 daniel

Japanese game developer SUCCESS Corporation has launched its web game Metal SAGA on Renren on July8. The game now has 17,397 users. Metal SAGA is a simulation game and a sequel of Metal Max (メタルマックス), which was originally developed by Japanese game developer Crea-Tech and published by DATA EAST.As of July 14, Renren has 44 RPG web games, 17 combat web games, 23 strategic web games and 5 board web games. There are also a dozen of social games on Renren.

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7711.com :The seventh platform of Gamewave was released

July 12th, 2011 Lucifer

Gamewave today announced it will launch a new platform again, the platform called 7711.com .This is the seventh platform of Gamewave since the company launched Yxduo.com in June .The 7711.com is the third platform that launched in this year.Currently, Gamewave has some successful web game platforms, such as Game2.cn, niua.com, Juu.cn and Game5.com.The Company has 90 million registered users and more than 50 games.

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China Web Games Market Report in the First Half of 2011

July 12th, 2011 Eric Hong

RPG web games grow rapidly this year. In the first half of 2011, 315 browser-based games launched tests, including 180 RPG ones, 76 war strategy ones, 26 business simulation ones, 29 leisure competitive and community ones and 4 kids ones.Large game companies and large platforms keep ahead of others. 6 games were tested on Kunlun.com, 4 on xunwan.com and 3 on renren.com in the first half of 2011.

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Chinese Games Invade Korean Market

July 11th, 2011 Eric Hong

Recently Chinese game companies are making an inroad into Korean market. They are now trying to service their games directly in Korea rather than publishing Korean online game in their country.The9, Kunlun, and Tencent are representative publishers.Kunlun founded Kunlun Korea last June and kicked off CBT of today. It plans to launch 4 web games and 1 MMORPG within this year.

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Linekong Plans to Launch Four Web Games

July 9th, 2011 daniel

Linekong is going to launch four web games this year, said CEO Feng Wang on the Condottiere exhibition today. Frantically Rat’s first iPad version is also set to be released later this year. LineKong is a young interactive entertainment enterprise specialized in the development and operation of online and mobile game.At present, Condottiere has been sold to 40 countries/regions, including Europe, North America, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

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Changyou’s DDTank to End Service on Tianya.com and 9You

July 7th, 2011 Eric Hong

Tianya.com and 9You have published announcements on the closure of DDTank, but the game still runs normally on Baidu and Renren.com. From Baidu’s search traffic, the game hasn’t shown any abnormalities so far.DDTank set the highest record of 350,000 concurrent users in Q4, 2010 and has been made into 9 languages. Up until now, the game has been launched on Facebook and operated in China by more than 50 publishers.Generally, social sites and game developers respectively share 52% and 48% of the game profits in China.

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Dream² Little Ninja launched in Facebook by GamBunny

July 4th, 2011 Eric Hong

July 4 news.Dream² browser web game Little Ninja launched in FaceBook last week. This game is the most successful web game in past 12 months in China. The game is based on Japanese anime Naruto.Although the Dream² didn’t get the authorization of Naruto, it not affect it to attracting a tremendous amount of players.
The Little Ninja of FaceBook version was promoted in last week and it entered into Facebook Top20 Gainer social game rank .The MAU of this game is 100,800. Just one week, the game got 98,540 new users. The Little Ninja has three servers right now.

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