Sohu.com Announces Open Beta Testing of "Legend of Ancient World" by Changyou.com
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Posted on May 19, 2011 at 12:07:01 AM
Sohu.com Announces Open Beta Testing of "Legend of Ancient World" by Changyou.com
BEIJING, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, search, gaming, community and mobile service group, today announced that its online game subsidiary, Changyou.com Limited ("Changyou") (NASDAQ: CYOU) began open-beta testing of Legend of Ancient World, Changyou's first 2.5D oriental fantasy massively multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG") today.
Legend of Ancient World was licensed from a game studio in China. Transporting players back some 4,000 years to the ancient Huaxia period, the game allows players to explore an ancient Chinese civilization while experiencing 21 occupations, 9 challenging dungeons and over 50 different mounts for players to ride. The downloadable client software is only 0.4GB in size which will make it fast and easy to download to computers.
Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou's president and chief operating officer, commented, "As our first time travel MMO game, Legend of Ancient World should appeal to players who like civilization games and imaginative storylines. Its launch adds another high quality licensed game to Changyou's portfolio and should help bring more gamers to Changyou's platform."
About Changyou
Changyou.com Limited's massively multi-player online role-playing games ("MMORPG") business began operations as a business unit within Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) in 2003. Changyou, a leading developer and operator of online games in China, was carved out as a separate, stand-alone company in December 2007, completed an initial public offering on April 7, 2009. Changyou currently operates eight online games, including the in-house developed Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online games in China, and the licensed Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu, Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, Immortal Faith, San Jie Qi Yuan and Legend of Ancient World. Changyou has a diversified pipeline of games with various graphic styles and themes, including the in-house developed Duke of Mount Deer, which received an award as one of China's most anticipated online games. Changyou's advanced technology platform includes advanced 2.5D and 3D graphics engines, a uniform game development platform, effective anti-cheating and anti-hacking technologies, proprietary cross-networking technology and advanced data protection technology. For more information about Changyou, please visit http://www.changyou.com/en/.
About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination http://www.sohu.com; interactive search engine http://www.sogou.com; #1 games information portal http://www.17173.com; the top real estate website http://www.focus.cn; #1 online alumni club http://www.chinaren.com; wireless value-added services provider http://www.goodfeel.com.cn; leading online mapping service provider http://www.go2map.com; and developer and operator of online games http://www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bid listing on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, music, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. Sohu's online game subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU), currently operates eight online games in China, including the in-house developed Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online games in China, and the licensed Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu, Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, Immortal Faith, San Jie Qi Yuan and Legend of Ancient World. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, is in its fifteenth year of operation.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sohu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the current global financial and credit markets crisis and its potential impact on the Chinese economy, the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's Republic of China, fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating results, and Sohu's reliance on online advertising sales, online games and wireless services (most wireless revenues are collected from a few mobile network operators) for its revenues. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Sohu's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Mr. James Deng
Sohu.com Inc.
Tel: +86 (10) 6272-6596
E-mail: ir@contact.sohu.com
Ms. Jenny Wu
Christensen
Tel: +86 (10) 5826-4939
E-mail: jwu@ChristensenIR.com
In the United States:
Mr. Jeff Bloker
Christensen
Tel: +1 (480) 614-3003
E-mail: jbloker@ChristensenIR.com
.
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BEIJING, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, search, gaming, community and mobile service group, today announced that its online game subsidiary, Changyou.com Limited ("Changyou") (NASDAQ: CYOU) began open-beta testing of Legend of Ancient World, Changyou's first 2.5D oriental fantasy massively multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG") today.
Legend of Ancient World was licensed from a game studio in China. Transporting players back some 4,000 years to the ancient Huaxia period, the game allows players to explore an ancient Chinese civilization while experiencing 21 occupations, 9 challenging dungeons and over 50 different mounts for players to ride. The downloadable client software is only 0.4GB in size which will make it fast and easy to download to computers.
Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou's president and chief operating officer, commented, "As our first time travel MMO game, Legend of Ancient World should appeal to players who like civilization games and imaginative storylines. Its launch adds another high quality licensed game to Changyou's portfolio and should help bring more gamers to Changyou's platform."
About Changyou
Changyou.com Limited's massively multi-player online role-playing games ("MMORPG") business began operations as a business unit within Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) in 2003. Changyou, a leading developer and operator of online games in China, was carved out as a separate, stand-alone company in December 2007, completed an initial public offering on April 7, 2009. Changyou currently operates eight online games, including the in-house developed Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online games in China, and the licensed Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu, Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, Immortal Faith, San Jie Qi Yuan and Legend of Ancient World. Changyou has a diversified pipeline of games with various graphic styles and themes, including the in-house developed Duke of Mount Deer, which received an award as one of China's most anticipated online games. Changyou's advanced technology platform includes advanced 2.5D and 3D graphics engines, a uniform game development platform, effective anti-cheating and anti-hacking technologies, proprietary cross-networking technology and advanced data protection technology. For more information about Changyou, please visit http://www.changyou.com/en/.
About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination http://www.sohu.com; interactive search engine http://www.sogou.com; #1 games information portal http://www.17173.com; the top real estate website http://www.focus.cn; #1 online alumni club http://www.chinaren.com; wireless value-added services provider http://www.goodfeel.com.cn; leading online mapping service provider http://www.go2map.com; and developer and operator of online games http://www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bid listing on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, music, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. Sohu's online game subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU), currently operates eight online games in China, including the in-house developed Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online games in China, and the licensed Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu, Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, Immortal Faith, San Jie Qi Yuan and Legend of Ancient World. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, is in its fifteenth year of operation.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sohu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the current global financial and credit markets crisis and its potential impact on the Chinese economy, the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's Republic of China, fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating results, and Sohu's reliance on online advertising sales, online games and wireless services (most wireless revenues are collected from a few mobile network operators) for its revenues. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Sohu's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Mr. James Deng
Sohu.com Inc.
Tel: +86 (10) 6272-6596
E-mail: ir@contact.sohu.com
Ms. Jenny Wu
Christensen
Tel: +86 (10) 5826-4939
E-mail: jwu@ChristensenIR.com
In the United States:
Mr. Jeff Bloker
Christensen
Tel: +1 (480) 614-3003
E-mail: jbloker@ChristensenIR.com
.
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