WebZen and NVidia announced during the E3 Expo convention that they will be entering a join technical and marketing relationship that will support WebZen's upcoming MMORPG "Sun". The official press release is below:
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ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO-LOS ANGELES, CA-May 19, 2005 - 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 10:30AM 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® GeForce� 6 Series graphics processors. 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.” |
