September 7th, 2009. Astrum Online Entertainment is proud to announce launch of The Legend role-playing game for VKontakte social network. The Legend is a new version of browser-based MMORPG Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, which attracted over five million users and translated into four languages.

Currently, Astrum Online Entertainment has launched six games for social networks, including The Legend; fifteen more of major projects are scheduled for release before the end of the year. Astrum Online Entertainment uses both outside studios and its own teams in social network games’ development.

The Legend for Vkontakte (http://legend.vkontakte.ru) is online role-playing game carrying all the distinctive features of the original Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, such as massive virtual world, entertaining and well-detailed battle and the items and the effects displayed on the game characters. At the same time, it has features which are integral for the best of social network-oriented games: the player can ask his friends for help or match his strenght with them in the heat of the battle.

In order to start playing, the user needs to login on http://legend.vkontakte.ru website using his/her regular Vkontakte login and simply follow installation instruction.

“The market of social network-oriented games is new and soaring”, comments Vsevolod Leonov, Astrum’s vice President of business development. “The key to success for these new format games is mostly in their close proximity to the consumer. The idea of adopting The Legend for the social networks came natural as this is a time-proven combination of comprehensible while deep and interesting game. This formula allowed us to reach leading results in monetization of the online games; from now on we can certainly expect for leadership in this new segment”.

“The experience in development and handling of multiplayer games provide us with substantial advantage in this new field”, says Maxim Donskikh, head of Astrum’s social games division. “We have already launched several small games for Vkontakte and they attracted over million users. We are confident The Legend will allow us to go way further”.



About Legend: Legacy of the Dragons

Legend: Legacy of The Dragons is a multiuser browser-based online fantasy game. The wars between humans and Magmars have been going on over the course of centuries. Two Great Dragons protect the interests of both races. There is nothing in the world that could withstand their strength, however, when chaos comes, even the Dragons are unable to keep fragile balance of power anymore. By entering the world of amazing adventures, the player will become either great warrior or crafty magician; will participate in bloody battles; will take a delight in victory and feel heartsick consciousness of defeat.
Legend: Legacy of the Dragons is rightfully considered the most popular browser-based game in Russian sector of the Internet. Winning the hearts of over five million gamers, the game is constantly evolving by acquiring new gaming possibilities. The key feature of the game is a precise visual implementation of the battles, allowing the players to observe all enemy actions and enemy specifications while simple enough for understanding even by an amateur player.
 

About IT Territory

IT Territory (http://www.it-territory.ru) is the developer and publisher of the online games and the games for social networks and is a part of Astrum Online Entertainment (http://www.astrumonline.ru), the largest player in Russia’s gaming market. The company is presently a leader in the online sector of Russian gaming market with 20 games in its portfolio, including 13 of its own games as well as the games by independent developers and licensed projects. The total number of the users registered in the IT Territory projects exceeds 12.5 million.
The company’s flagship, free role-playing online game Legend: Legacy of the Dragons (http://w2.dwar.ru) has been released in Russian, English (http://www.warofdragons.com), German (http://www.warofdragons.de), Chinese (http://w1.lz.woniu.com) and Turkish (http://www.dwar.gen.tr) languages.


About Astrum Online Entertainment

Astrum Online Entertainment is the largest player in the Eastern European market of interactive online entertainment. The Corporation is formed by five companies: Astrum Nival, Nikita.Online, IT Territory, TimeZero and DJ Games. The companies have successfully launched over thirty multiplayer online games, including such popular projects as Perfect World, Lord of the Rings Online, Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, The Territory, TimeZero, Sphere, Piratia and many others. Today’s auditorium of Astrum’s projects exceeds twenty million players. Astrum Online Entertainment prepares to release ten of its own gaming projects as well as six localized online games by its foreign partners during 2009. For more information please visit Astrum Online website at http://www.astrumonline.ru