HanbitSoft Games Swift Singapore!!

HANBITSOFT GAMES SWIFT SINGAPORE GAME MARKET
Granado Espada and Hellgate: London Occupy 60% of the Market

Seoul, Korea – November 2, 2007 – HanbitSoft today announced that the company’s premier titles, Granado Espada and Hellgate: London, are taking more than half of Singapore game market.

HanbitSoft has entered the market first with Granado Espada last year and made a stable stay. On October 31st, the company and IAH(Infocomm Asia Holdings), the local partner in charge of publishing both titles, introduced Hellgate: London’s Collectors Edition to the gamers.

According to GameShop, one of largest PC game merchandizing website, six out of ten best selling game products in Singapore is from HanbitSoft. The number one seller product is Granado Espada 1 Year Unlimited Play. Top four products were Granado Espada related products, and Hellgate: London’s Collector’s Edition made into top 10 just a day after its launch.

“In order for a game to be successful in overseas, it’s very important to have both faith and fame in the market,” said Alex Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, “We are very lucky in that way because Granado Espada and Hellgate: London both qualify those needs. We are very proud.”

Granado Espada and Hellgate: London, both top selling titles by HanbitSoft is serviced in Singapore by IAH.

GE to Russia!!

GRANADO ESPADA ADVANCES INTO RUSSIA
HanbitSoft and Nival Online Shake Hands on Partnership for Granado Espada’s Publishing Rights in Russia

Seoul, Korea – November 1, 2007 – HanbitSoft announced that the company has made a publishing rights agreement with Nival Online, one of largest game publishers in Russia, on providing Granado Espada in Russia.

Granado Espada is a well-known online MMORPG developed by IMCgames, team led by Hak Kyu Kim, one of most popular game developers worldwide. The game offers great graphics with dynamic gameplay and unique systems such as MCC(Multi Control Content) which are appraised by gamers worldwide.

“We are extremely pleased about our partnership with HanbitSoft, one of the most successful MMO publishers in Korea,” said Sergey Orlovskiy, CEO of Nival Online. “Our mission is to deliver the best worldwide MMO brands to the Russian market and we are excited to have Granado Espada aboard for our 2008 lineup. I’m sure the game will find a lot of fans among Russian gamers.”

Granado Espada is already being published in countries in North America, South East Asia, China and etc. Through the contract agreement with Nival Online, HanbitSoft has now advanced into 18 different countries with Granado Espada.

“We are also very excited to introduce Granado Espada to gamers in Russia,” said Alex Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft. “It’s a thrill to meet Russian gamers for the first time. With our confidence in our game and our localization know-how, we will do our best to please them.”

Granado Espada will be launched in Russia by Nival Online next year.

HGLD on the Cover!!

Check out the cover page of this month's PC Gamer!

HGLD Music Interview

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Jonric: For readers who aren't familiar with Sascha Dikiciyan, Cris Velasco or your past work, what are your backgrounds as composers for games?

Sascha Dikiciyan: I started my career in 1997 with id Software's Quake 2. From there, I scored Quake 3, James Bond and a few other titles. Things really picked up when Cris and I teamed up, and we've been working together ever since. Some of my personal favorites we scored to date include Haze, Beowulf, Dark Messiah, Splinter Cell 4 and of course, Hellgate: London.

this game was just a perfect match for us.

I really saw the opportunity to create something non-typical for Hellgate.

Flagship gave us all the freedom we needed.

Cris Velasco: I'm relatively new to the game scoring community. While I spent many years paying my dues and trying to get a foot in the door, I've actually been composing for games professionally for about four years now. My initial claim to fame was as one of the composers for the God of War franchise. I also recently was able to work with Clive Barker on Jericho. This was a big moment for me as it has always been a dream of mine to work with him. Other than that, Sascha and I have been very fortunate to be so busy since we teamed up. We've worked together on over a dozen games in the last two years including Stranglehold, Dark Messiah, TMNT, and Beowulf.

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Hellgate: London in Singapore!

Meet Hellgate in Singapore!!
IAH holds Hellgate: London's Launch Party

IAH Games is holding the SEA launch of Hellgate: London at Funan as part of the worldwide launch of the game. At the launch, gamers will be able to purchase the collector's edition of Hellgate: London, additionally, the first 100 customers will also get the opportunity to get their Hellgate: London collector's edition box signed by Erich and Max Schaefer, two members of Flagship Studios who are the creators of Hellgate: London.

What's more, if you are one of the first 500 customers buying the collector's edition, you will receive a Hellgate: London goodie bag. Also for launch day only, Hellgate: London Templar figures will be sold at 30% off, the offer is only available at the IAH Games Cyber Cafe at #B1-03B.

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Play Groove Party and Win 2008 Beijing Olympics Ticket

Download and Play Groove Party

Win 2008 Beijing Olympic Tickets!!

Groove Party currently on OBT in China is starting a new event.

During the event, for those who download the game client and play, SunShine will draw a lottery every week for two lucky people to give out 2008 Beijing Olympics tickets.

For more details, please visit http://gp.higame.com.cn/obt/gp/event/jhxzyl07/index.html

GE OBT China Starts OCT. 31

GRANADO ESPADA
OBT in China Starts on Oct. 31st

The9 announced that Granado Espada's OBT in China is delayed to October 31st.
They havent explain the reason for delay. With the official announcement, they made apologies and asked for understanding. They will update 6 more servers, opening total 15 servers.

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