Sohu.com Announces Launch of 'Da Hua Shui Hu' by Changyou.com on March 18, 2010
March 01 2010 - 4:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
BEIJING, March 1 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc. , China's
leading online media, communications, search, online games and
mobile value-added services group, today announced that its
massively multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG")
subsidiary, Changyou.com Limited ("Changyou") , will begin
open-beta testing of Da Hua Shui Hu, Changyou's 2D turn-based
cartoon-style MMORPG, on March 18, 2010. (LOGO:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100201/CNM013LOGO ) Da Hua
Shui Hu, a game developed by a Guangzhou-based game development
studio, is based on one of the four great classical novels of
Chinese literature, Outlaws of the Marsh. Through its cartoon
graphics and humorous twists on characters and plots, Da Hua Shui
Hu provides an amusing and entertaining take on the heroic tales
from the classic Chinese novel. Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou's
president and chief operating officer, commented, "As Changyou's
first cartoon-style turn-based game, Da Hua Shui Hu complements our
existing game offerings and further enriches Changyou's game
portfolio. It marks another step forward in our strategy of
focusing on both in-house developed and licensed games. We expect
the game to help expand our user base with its easy-to-learn
community-based game play, popular storyline and unique features,
which innovatively incorporate a number of today's most popular
gaming elements." Da Hua Shui Hu was successfully licensed in 2009
through Changyou's "Qi Bao" strategic licensing plan, which aims to
discover high-quality online games. 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. in 2003. Changyou was carved out as a separate,
stand-alone company in December 2007, completed an initial public
offering on April 7, 2009 and is now a leading developer and
operator of online games in China. Changyou currently operates
three 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 and Blade Hero 2. Changyou has a diversified pipeline
of games with various graphic styles and themes, including the
licensed Da Hua Shui Hu, Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, Immortal Faith,
Legend of the Ancient World, and the in-house developed Duke of
Mount Deer, which received an award as one of China's most
anticipated online games. Changyou's leading 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. 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/. Sohu corporate services
consist of brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as
paid listing and bid listing on its in-house developed search
directory and engines. Sohu also offers wireless value-added
services such as news, information, music, ringtone and picture
content sent over mobile phones. The Group's massively multiplayer
online role-playing game (MMORPG) subsidiary, Changyou.com ,
currently operates three MMORPGs, Tian Long Ba Bu, Blade Online and
Blade Hero 2. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of
China's internet pioneers, is in its fourteenth year of operation.
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could cause actual results to differ materially from those
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uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the current global
financial and credit markets crisis and its potential impact on the
Chinese economy, the slower growth the Chinese economy experienced
during the latter half of 2008 and in 2009, which could continue
through 2010, the uncertain regulatory landscape in the People's
Republic of China, fluctuations in Sohu's quarterly operating
results, Sohu's historical and possible future losses, and its
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, 2009, and other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. For investor and media
inquiries, please contact: In China: Mr. James Deng Senior Finance
Director Sohu.com Inc. Phone: +86-10-6272-6596 Email:
ir@contact.sohu.com Ms. Cathy Li Ogilvy Financial, Beijing Phone:
+86-10-8520-6104 Email: cathy.li@ogilvy.com In the United States:
Ms. Jessica Barist Cohen Ogilvy Financial, New York Phone:
+1-646-460-9989 Email: jessica.cohen@ogilvypr.com DATASOURCE:
Sohu.com Inc. CONTACT: In China: Mr. James Deng, Senior Finance
Director, Sohu.comInc., +86-10-6272-6596, or ir@contact.sohu.com;
or Ms. Cathy Li, OgilvyFinancial, Beijing, +86-10-8520-6104, or
cathy.li@ogilvy.com; In the UnitedStates: Ms. Jessica Barist Cohen,
Ogilvy Financial, New York, +1-646-460-9989,or
jessica.cohen@ogilvypr.com Web site:
http://www.sohu.com/http://www.changyou.com/
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