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Aug 4, 2004, 5:08 AM
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Shenmue Online - Sega to Release MMOG of Popular game.
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Sega Corporation and JC Entertainment Corporation announced a business alliance to co-develop and co-publish Shenmue Online, a massively multi-player online game (MMOG) for PC platform. Also Sega has the basic agreement with T2 Technology Holdings Inc. to allow T2 Technology to license China online game operation of Shenmue Online.
By T2 Technology’s online game operation of Shenmue Online, the commercial launch is due to within 2005.
Also Shenmue Online will roll out in Korea, beginning with a private beta in November 2004, followed by an open beta and the commercial launch in Spring 2005. The online game operation in Korea will be managed by JC Entertainment.
The Shenmue franchise was established more than five years ago with the release of Shenmue in 1999, then Shenmue II in 2001. Shenmue boasted groundbreaking full 3DCG environments and over 1,400 characters alive in a virtual world where time passes and the weather also changes, as in real life. I for one bought a Dreamcast simply to play these games, both of which were well worth the cost (of my half priced Dreamcast.) Perhaps the best games on the Dreamcast console are the Shenmue series, and I'm alos pleased that the story won't die with Shenmue 2. I mean seriously, will Nazomi (isn't that her name) return from Canada to meet up with Ryu Hazuki-san?
Shenmue Online is MMO Action RPG in which tens of thousands of players will participate in the virtual world of Shenmue staged in China including Hong Kong in 1980’s. Players, acting as militants, will use mysterious powers, kung-fu, Chinese weapons and Qigong in real-time fight-action.
Sega, JC Entertainment and T2 Technology will leverage a combined development, distribution power, and operation power to expand the online audience of Shenmue Online to grow their network businesses.
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