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BEIJING, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- NetEase.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) announced today that it will report its financial results for the second quarter 2011 on Wednesday, August 17, 2011, after the close of the U.S. markets. The earnings teleconference call with simultaneous webcast will take place at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 (Beijing/Hong Kong Time: 9:00 a.m., Thursday, August 18, 2011). NetEase's management will be on the call to discuss the...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The call for submissions to present lectures, roundtables and panel sessions at the 2012 Game Developers Conference® (GDC) is now open through Tuesday, September 6th. Organized by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, GDC 2012 is the game industry's most comprehensive and longest running professionals-only event where game developers converge for a week of learning, networking and inspiration. GDC 2012 will take place March 5-9 at the Moscone...
SHANGHAI, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and NetEase.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES) today announced that World of Warcraft(®): Cataclysm(TM), the third expansion for Blizzard Entertainment's award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will launch in mainland China on July 12, 2011. In preparation for the expansion's release, players can now begin the process of background downloading data for version 4.1 of the game client,...
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method that can accurately predict the behavior of players in online role-playing games. The tool could be used by the game industry to develop new game content, or to help steer players to the parts of a game they will enjoy most."We are able to predict what a player in a game will do based on his or her previous behavior, with up to 80 percent accuracy," says Brent Harrison, a Ph.D. student at NC State and co-author of a...
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- IGXE, the premier online gaming organization, has recently announced a special offer for gamers of World of Warcraft, (WoW). The offer symbolizes a special price reduction. It is a common activity of a reputed site like IGXE. This activity is going to take place from 13th May to 23rd May, 2011. We all know World of Warcraft is a popular MMORPG and gold is the most important ingredient in the game. The gamers of WoW have the right...
BEIJING, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- NetEase.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) announced today that it will report its financial results for the first quarter 2011 on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, after the close of the U.S. markets. The earnings teleconference call with simultaneous webcast will take place at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 (Beijing/Hong Kong Time: 9:00 a.m., Thursday, May 19, 2011). NetEase's management will be on the call to discuss the quarterly...
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Recently, IGXE (another platform of DinoDirect) held a summary meeting about sales of new products. The newcomer, the World of Tanks, has gained a pretty sale. Mr. Kevin, CEO of IGXE, revealed that IGXE will further intensify the promotion of World of Tanks Credits. World of Tanks is the first and only team-based massively multiplayer online third person slasher dedicated to armored warfare in the mid-20th century. Combined with action,...
SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced that Free Realms® (www.FreeRealms.com), the popular free-to-play, family-friendly virtual world game, is now available as a free download on the PlayStation®Network. Free Realms, originally launched in 2009 for the PC and in 2010 for the MAC computer, has quickly grown into an online community of nearly 17 million registered players! Free Realms comes as SOE's second massively multiplayer...
SHANGHAI, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and NetEase.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTES) announced today that the open beta test for Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft(®) II has begun in mainland China. During the open beta test, players will be able to experience the intense strategic gameplay of StarCraft II's multiplayer modes for free. Gamers who would like to participate and who haven't already created a Battle.net(® )account or downloaded the StarCraft II...
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Rift Gold as an indispensable item of the Rift game has achieved good sales performance after its release. On regard to its outstanding achievement, IGXE added it to the hot sell team. Rift is a new MMORPG released in March 2011. The game developer intended to create Rift as a second World of Warcraft. The comparison will be pretty obvious and hard to ignore, especially given the game's tag line that "we're not in Azeroth anymore",...
