TOKYO, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EitaroSoft, Inc.*
announced on Feb. 22 that the company
and The9 Limited* have concluded a license agreement to jointly
deploy in the Chinese market a smartphone version of EitaroSoft's
"Galaxy Frontier,"* which has become the first Japanese mobile 3D
Action MMORPG, currently in service at two media sites -- "esgames"
(http://esgm.jp/pc/ ) operated by EitaroSoft and the "docomo
market" operated by Japan's
largest mobile carrier NTT DOCOMO.
In China, there is already an
enormous online game market consisting of more than 2 million game
players. The9 has started to focus its business on this promising
smartphone entertainment market in China ahead of other companies. For instance,
the Chinese firm has been licensed deploy in China "OpenFeint," well known worldwide as a
game platform or SDK for smartphones.
EitaroSoft is willing to play a part in familiarizing Chinese
smartphone users with online games through this 3D mobile Action
MMORPG Galaxy Frontier, which has kept the first place in "the most
downloaded application" ranking in the Roll Playing Game category
of the docomo market (ranked 1st place out of 155 apps as of
Feb. 14, 2011) since Dec. 1, 2010.
Hereafter, EitaroSoft is getting into full swing in its bid to
target the global smartphone market starting with Japan and China, followed by South Korea, the USA and other markets.
About The9 Limited
The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY) is the leading online game developer
and operator in China. The9's
business is primarily focused on developing and operating
high-quality games for the online, web, social and mobile game
markets. The9 also introduced OpenFeint into China and works with major telecom carriers to
publish quality mobile games in domestic app stores.
About Galaxy Frontier
Galaxy Frontier is the latest RPG title developed by EitaroSoft,
which has released many big titles ever since its establishment.
Especially this Galaxy Frontier has overcome the generally
considered difficulties relating to developing "Action RPGs" on the
mobile phone, and this achievement brought users more enjoyable
online party play with other players such as the strategic defense
and offense action versus the enemy. The development team is the
one that developed the massively popular "Master of Fantasia" game
downloaded by more than a million users. So this Galaxy Frontier
can be called a most sophisticated piece in action and story
nature.
Generally speaking, online games have the image that only the
core game players enjoy them because a game consumes a long time to
clear. But this new game has adopted a "fatigue conceptualized
system" that nowadays is often utilized for social games, making it
more enjoyable even for light users who prefer to have fun from
games only when they have spare time. The game's story line is
profound, developing in the stage of 8 planets in the universe,
with a future human race fighting for its survival against the
giant mechanized invader weapon "Sheol."
< Story concept > Writer: Naruki Nagakawa
Examples of his main works: Online RPG Dragon Ball (story
concept and scenario), Eureka Seven (NEW WAVE 3rd and 5th episodes,
scenario, and so on)
< Writer's agency > EdgeWORKS, Inc.
EdgeWORKS is a scenario production company with Kazuki Yamanobe as the representative director.
Experienced professional scenario writers have composed game
scenarios and other genres of scenarios. They have produced more
than 200 pieces of work. URL:
http://www.edge-works.co.jp/en/index.html
< Website introducing the game in video >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o8VrTCLC6A
< Website showing sample images >
http://www.eitarosoft.co.jp/press/20110222/
< Business model > Free download, no monthly fee,
Item-by-item charge
About EitaroSoft, Inc.
EitaroSoft is a Japanese company that has successfully developed
Japan's first 3D engine using
application software. The company also has provided its original 3D
avatar system, using Ajax which is quite advanced technology in the
world. In addition to the avatar technology, the company has
succeeded in providing Japan's
first 3D avatar system for mobile browsing. Furthermore, EitaroSoft
has the original online P2P technology that has brought about the
first Japanese 3D mobile MORPG called "Master of Fantasia," which
allows up to four people to tag a party to go for monster hunting.
EitaroSoft is pouring its energies on network games. EitaroSoft has
been challenging breakthroughs in technological R&D and has
actually realized many of these. EitaroSoft has thus won a high
reputation from clients seeking to provide differentiated
services.
For more details about us:
http://www.eitarosoft.co.jp/
Established: January 2002
Headquarters: Tokyo
Contact:
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Eri TOKITA, Division
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Global Business
Division
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EitaroSoft, Inc.
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Tel: +81-3-3254-3770
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Fax: +81-3-3254-3778
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E-mail:
pr@eitarosoft.co.jp
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SOURCE EitaroSoft, Inc.