September 16, 2009, Moscow. IT Territory, a part of Astrum Online Entertainment holding, announces the beginning of closed beta testing of the localized version of Feng Yun MMORPG. Volunteers selected for the first stage of testing have received their invitations today.

Gamers willing to participate in the later stages of closed beta testing can submit their requests at http://www.skiesgame.ru. New invitations will be sent out in the next few days.
Yuri Maslikov, Project manager of IT Territory: “I would like to thank the gamers, who decided to participate in beta-testing, their support is really important to us. Feng Yun is a colorful and accessible game, however many of its aspects will be unfolding as time goes by, and testing of these components will also require active gamers’ involvement. I am looking forward to seeing raids, massive PvP battles and first Goddesses and Emperors on testing servers in the nearest future”.

About the game:

Feng Yun is a free-to-play MMORPG that combines the features of the most innovative games of this genre. In the colorful world of ancient Chinese myths and legends your will discover PvP with hundreds of players, castle sieges, developed political and crafting systems, unique modes of PvE in the dungeons, and much more!

The Great Emperor is gone and Heavenly Empire is split into four parts. The strife between the kingdoms of Icy Wind and Terra Firma, between the countries of Grey Clouds and Fiery Skies never ceases. Will there ever come a time when the country is united once again under the rule of a great leader?

Key features of the game:

Global PvP and castle sieges. The battles rage day and night in the valley of Feng Yun, thousands of warriors come together in combat. The Guilds numbering hundreds of players fight for control over Strongholds, which bring riches and influence.

Politics that affect the game. Players gets more experience, objects and gaming options not by pumping iron aimlessly, but by helping their kingdoms: exterminating its enemies, donating money and destroying high-level monsters. The amount of contribution points received as a result of these actions determines the winner in the Wars of the Kingdoms. The winning party receives substantial gaming bonuses.

Crafts are more important than ever before! The most powerful objects in the game cannot be taken from monsters; they must be created by players. Quality weapons and armor production is a matter of strategic importance and determines the outcome of the war.

More dungeons! In addition to many usual dungeons the world of Feng Yun also offers special Demon Pacification dungeons: the player will spend 6 hours there and will not be able to use magic and special skills. Also there are Ruins of Avarice, where the player, if survives, is rewarded with increasing amount of experience for every minute inside!




About Shanda Interactive Entertainment
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (NasdaqGS: SNDA) is the leading company in Chinese entertainment and media industry. Shanda offers an extensive portfolio of entertainment content including the most popular Chinese global multiplayer RPG’s and innovative casual online games as well as online board games, gaming platform for electronic sports and wide variety of cartoons, literary and musical content. Shanda’s interactive entertainment platform has attracted a vast and loyal user audience. Every user is able to interact with thousands of other users and enjoy Shanda’s interactive entertainment. Interaction enriches your life.

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. Currently, the Corporation includes five companies: Astrum Nival (http://www.astrumnival.com), Nikita.Online (http://www.nikitaonline.ru), IT Territory (http://it-territory.ru), TimeZero (www.timezero.com) and DJ Games (http://www.djgames.com.ua/). The companies have successfully launched over thirty massive multiplayer online games, including such popular projects as Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (http://www.lotro-russia.com), Legend: Legacy of the Dragons (http://www.dwar.ru), the Territory (http://www.territory.ru), TimeZero (http://www.timezero.ru), Sphere (http://www.sphere.nikitaonline.ru), Piratia (http://www.piratia.ru), Perfect World (http://www.pwonline.ru) and many others. The total audience of Astrum’s projects has exceeded twenty million players in May, 2009.

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.