Empire of Sports: Not your usual online sports game
March 14, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO Players, Coming Soon, Giant Interactive, MMO Sports, MMORPG, MMORPG News, MMORPG Videos, Random Rants
Tired of playing online sports games that only feature one sport? Well, good news for online game fanatics in China. It seems our friends up at the Giant Interactive Group is bringing in Empire of Sports.
Wait a minute? Empire of Sports? For the uninformed (don’t worry, I was clueless about the game until only a couple of hours ago), here’s a brief backgrounder:
Empire of Sports is an online multisport massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by the French company F4. The game was first unveiled at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2007.
Despite having been demo-ed almost two years ago, …read more
China Game Industry Annual Conference 2008 winners
December 22, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under 9you, Asian MMO, Chibi, Giant Interactive, MMORPG, MMORPG News, Perfect World, Shanda, Tencent, The9
It may be over and done with, but the China Game Industry Annual Conference, held on December 16 at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, has opened the doors to the world for the country’s video games industry. This year’s theme: Scientific Development, Creative Culture and Service Improvement.
Of course, what’s a conference without awarding recognition to the best in the industry. Here’s a list of some of the winners and their company profiles:
Shanda Entertainment
Shanda is a leading interactive entertainment media company in China and offers a variety of Internet-based entertainment services, such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games, casual …read more
Egad! China online games industry raking in big bucks
May 10, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Giant Interactive, MMORPG, MMORPG News, Shanda
Just how big? Well, last time someone checked, the industry has posted 3.985 billion yuan in revenues. That’s at least US$571 million!
Here’s an excerpt from a 17173 story on the huge figures:
According to the Chinese Online Game Market Survey for the first quarter of 2008, a report published by Analysis International, the toal revenue of the industry has reached RMB 3.985 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 14 percent.
With a market share of 18.7 percent, Shanda kept its lead in the market, followed by NetEase at 13.3 percent, The9 at 11.5 percent, and Giant Interactive at 11.3 percent.
whew! I’m sure a …read more
Giant Online: Big game for big wars
March 15, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Giant Interactive, Giant Online, MMOFPS, MMORPG, MMORPG News, Random Rants, WarRock
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of MMORPG developers who claim that their game is “totally different from what’s in the market now.” Giant Interactive, one of China’s leading online game developers and operators, has fallen into such a loop shortly before announcing plans for its second MMORPG title, Giant Online.
In an interview published in China’s biggest video games portal, Yuzhu Shi, chairman of Giant Interactive, delivered that exact line, and went even further by submitting the idea that Giant Online would be one of the most popular games of 2008.
No, no, I have nothing against the …read more
