BEIJING, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc.
(Nasdaq: SOHU), 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") (Nasdaq: CYOU), will begin
open-beta testing of Zhong Hua Ying
Xiong, the Company's first 3D martial arts-themed massively
multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG"), on May 20, 2010.
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Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, a game
developed by a leading online game developer in Taiwan, is based on a popular Hong Kong comic book of the same name. With
advanced 3D graphics, cinematic cutscenes, and dynamic real-time
fighting movements, online game players will have the opportunity
to relive the heroic and epic struggles of Asian Americans in the
1930s.
Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou's
president and chief operating officer, commented, "As our first
licensed 3D martial arts-themed MMORPG, this game advances our
product diversification efforts. We believe the game's realistic
visual effects and creative free-style fighting game-play will help
Changyou draw new online game players who are looking for a unique
gaming experience."
About Changyou.com
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 five
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 and Zhong Hua Ying Xiong. Changyou has a diversified
pipeline of games with various graphic styles and themes, including
the licensed 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 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.
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 engine. Sohu also offers
wireless value-added services such as news, information, music,
ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. Sohu's
massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) subsidiary,
Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU), currently operates five online games,
including Tian Long Ba Bu, Blade
Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu and Zhong Hua Ying Xiong. Sohu.com, established by
Dr. Charles Zhang, one of
China's internet pioneers, is in
its fourteenth year of operation.
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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 recur in
the future, 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.
Tel: +86-10-6272-6596
Email: ir@contact.sohu.com
Mr. Chen Yuan Yuan
Christensen
Tel: +86-10-5971-2001
Email: ychen@ChristensenIR.com
In the United States:
Mr. Jeff Bloker
Christensen
Tel: +1-480-614-3003
Email: jbloker@ChristensenIR.com
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