NVIDIA, WEBZEN Form New Technical and Marketing Relationship
WEBZEN's MMORPG SUN to Be Included in NVIDIA 'The Way It's Meant to Be Played'
Program
ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO, LOS ANGELES, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital
media processors, and WEBZEN Inc. (NASDAQ:WZEN), a leading global online
entertainment developer and publisher, today announced a joint technical and
marketing relationship that will support WEBZEN's upcoming 3D massively,
multi-player, online, role-playing game (MMORPG) titles for the PC platform. WEBZEN's highly-anticipated Sun will be part of the NVIDIA "The Way It's Meant
To Be Played" program, and is debuting in the WEBZEN booth at this year's
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Additionally, a stage event will take place
every day at 10:30 a.m. in WEBZEN's booth, #700 in the South Hall, to
demonstrate how the two companies will be working together. All PCs used for
the demonstration at WEBZEN's booth will be equipped with NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM)
6 Series graphics processors.
(Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020613/NVDALOGO ) To maximize the stunning visuals along with the compatibility, stability, and
reliability of the games developed by WEBZEN using NVIDIA graphics processing
units (GPUs), the companies will engage in a joint development and
compatibility testing program. In addition, WEBZEN and NVIDIA will work closely
to implement graphical enhancements that will utilize the advanced features
found in the award-winning line of NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series processors and
beyond. Joint promotions will also be initiated in an effort to raise the
awareness level of each company's products.
"As a company that is dedicated in transforming the computing experience, we
are always eager to work with developers who are as passionate about graphics
as we are," said Mark Daly, vice president of content development at NVIDIA. "Combining our graphics know-how with WEBZEN creative talents will result in
games that raise the bar in the online gaming space." "WEBZEN is very pleased to be working with the world's market and technology
leader in graphics processors," said Dae Chun Park, Chief Marketing Officer of
WEBZEN, Inc. "By adopting NVIDIA GPUs as part of our reference development
platform and working with their experts in 3D graphics, we are confident that
our upcoming games will remain at the cutting-edge of 3D technology, resulting
in games that are bound to excite even the most demanding game players." About WEBZEN Based in Seoul, Korea, WEBZEN Inc. has become a global leader in the MMOG
market, and has developed some of the world's top online game and client/server
technologies. Already having achieved critical mass in Asian markets with
publishing divisions in Taiwan, China, Japan and Thailand, WEBZEN Inc. has
established WEBZEN America, a wholly-owned US subsidiary based in Los Angeles. WEBZEN America leverages WEBZEN technology and partners with some of the most
well-known names in the video games industry to deliver some of the most
compelling, visually stunning graphics available in persistent world games. WEBZEN and WEBZEN America are poised to launch a diverse portfolio of online
products and services, beginning with the highly anticipated MMORPG SUN, the
Unreal 3.0 engine-based MMOFPS Huxley, and the original action MMOG All Points
Bulletin (APB).
For more information about WEBZEN Inc., go to http://www.webzen.com/.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media
processors. The Company's products enhance the end-user experience on consumer
and professional computing devices. NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs),
media and communications processors (MCPs), and wireless media processors
(WMPs) have broad market reach and are incorporated into a variety of
platforms, including consumer and enterprise PCs, notebooks, workstations,
PDAs, mobile phones, and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa
Clara, California and employs more than 2,100 people worldwide. For more
information, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com/.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the
benefits and outcomes of the technical and marketing relationship between
NVIDIA and WEBZEN, and the characteristics, performance and capabilities of the
games developed by WEBZEN using NVIDIA products, are forward-looking statements
that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be
materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to, continued development of the gaming industry,
acceptance of new games, products and technologies by the market and online
gamers, delays in ramping new products into production, manufacturing defects,
incompatibility of technologies, software defects, reliance on third-party
manufacturers, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives,
NVIDIA dependence on third-party developers and publishers and other risks
detailed from time to time in the NVIDIA reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended January
30, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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