![]() All of those players are reaping profits in China, where online game revenues are expected to hit $4.5 billion in 2010, according to Niko Partners. Other big Chinese game makers include Giant Interactive, Shanda Games, The9, Tencent and. ![]() ![]() Another Chinese online game company, Perfect World, has also established a publishing division in California (Redwood City) that is taking online games from China and adapting them for the U.S. That team takes titles from its Asian parent company or commissions titles from developers and launches them in the U.S. Revelt is part of a 50-person publishing team that ChangYou has established in Santa Clara, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. All of ChangYou’s games so far delve into the mythical history of China. ![]() In China, ChangYou’s big hit is Tian Long Ba Bu, or Dragon Oath, which has been in the top ten massively multiplayer online games since its launch in 2007, according to Niko Partners analyst Lisa Cosmas Hanson. It will be interesting to see how Zentia does, given the considerable amount of competition from games such as Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, which has 11 million paying subscribers, Nexon’s free-to-play Maplestory, which has more than 112 million registered players, and Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms, with 12 million registered users. ![]()
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