Over in Boston :
“38 Studios, LLC announces two new appointments to its executive team based at the company’s Maynard, MA headquarters. Rick Wester takes on the role of Chief Financial Officer and Denise Kaigler joins as Chief Marketing Officer. Both appointments were effective in February. Wester reports to Bill Thomas, the Chief Operating Officer of 38 Studios. Kaigler reports to Jen MacLean, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer.”
Full details here.
The upcoming MMOTFPS [Tank FPS 
] World of Tanks has a bunch of new videos available on our Youtube Channel
from the Built on BigWorld dept.
Userjoy’s BigWorld-powered MMO, Kingdom Heroes II has another new trailer showing some fantastic content available in the game :
Quick comment: Zhengrong Tianxia goes into Second Closed Beta from 26th Nov.
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《峥嵘天下》作为杭州五花马网络科技有限公司历时三年磨砺的“真仙侠”风格代表作，完美体现了中国传统仙侠文化的诸多特色，力求将玩家带入真正的仙侠世界。
讲到仙侠，自然脑海中会出现法宝、丹药、仙山灵府、上古妖兽之类的词汇，而这些，在《峥嵘天下》中都得到了完美的再现。玩家通过任务、打怪、副本等途径，可以得到各式各样的宝物，如果你对自己有信心，甚至可以自己去采集天材地宝来炼制属于自己的法宝，当然，也可以转卖他人。除此之外，还可以利用修炼时得到的灵材炼制丹药，功效各异的丹药，不但能对你的修炼起到大的帮助，很多时候还可以救你一命哦。
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最具有仙侠风格的原创网游——《峥嵘天下》，11月26日即将展开开发测试，你，心动了吗？
Quick comment: Shanghai UQU attends G★2009 with her latest MMO ” Guichuideng OL’, which developed on the famous BigWorld engine.
G★2009游戏展11月26日在韩国釜山拉开帷幕，此次展会约有近200家海内外公司参加，受组委会的邀请，中国新锐游戏厂商上海游趣网络有限公司此次也携《鬼吹灯》Online赴釜山参加G★2009游戏展。
推广国产网游 引入海外产品
此次游趣展位位于商务展厅B2B游趣已经计划代理海外产品，游趣与韩国当地的公司和其他参展的海外公司进行良好的互动和洽谈，对下阶段公司新产品的采集尤为重要。展厅（E-26），游趣营销中心总监莫夏芸小姐带队前往。莫小姐表示：“此次能够在G★2009的展会上展出《鬼吹灯》Online这款浓厚中国式探险味的网游，是为国产网游扩大海外市场的一次重要机遇，能与众多优秀的韩游产品和国内网游同台展示，也是种挑战。游趣一直秉承原创国产网游走出去，优秀海外作品引进来的海外发展战略，积极寻求海外合作机会。此次之行，不但将自主研发国产网游推行到海外，也借由展会发掘一批高品质的海外网游。”
游趣网络CEO沈伟表示：“此次G★2009参展意义重大，是游趣海外战略推进的重要里程碑。作为新兴的中国网络游戏原创力量，我们希望借此机会进一步推广我们中国原创的作品”。
游趣已经计划代理海外产品，游趣与韩国当地的公司和其他参展的海外公司进行良好的互动和洽谈，对下阶段公司新产品的采集尤为重要。
《鬼吹灯》Online，作为上海游趣网络首款完全自主研发的大型全3D纯中国探险网游，采用国际顶尖的“BigWorld”引擎，历时2年，倾力打造。精美细腻的画面，离奇诡异的剧情发展，出乎意料的机关解谜系统……种种超乎想象的存在，将吸引无数跃跃欲试的未来探险家们进入这个波澜壮阔的鬼吹灯世界。
from the All roads lead to Beijing dept.
Demonstrating depth of field, advanced lighting and rich textures
NASDAQ listed Sohu company, Changyou, today announced their multi-license technology deal with BigWorld for the development of multiple online game titles :
Xiaojian Hong, CTO of Changyou asserted that Changyou has the best game development team in China and always strives to make the best online games. He said that “The BigWorld engine is the best MMOG solution worldwide and has success stories in China. Changyou has licensed BigWorld without hesitation. I believe that we will leverage the BigWorld engine in our upcoming 3D products to make them mature and perfect. Changyou will continue to strive to produce many higher quality MMOG titles for end-users.”
Full release over the wire and now also here.
from the Busy day in the East dept.
In what appears to be some significant licensing to-ing and fro-ing, we may be able to shortly confirm the following :
1) Netease (NTES) is publishing the BigWorld-powered ‘Tianxia 2′ in Taiwan through BigWorld licensee, Userjoy.
2) Userjoy themselves are publishing BigWorld-powered Kingdom Heroes II in mainland China through The9.
All of this is assumption and inference at the moment – stay tuned for confirmations.
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