• Online Game Developer Perfect World Buys C&C Media For $21 Million

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Perfect World, a NASDAQ-listed online game developer and operator based in China, has agreed to acquire C&C Media, a Japanese online game operator from computer and video game developer ATLUS. Perfect World, which currently boasts a market cap of nearly $2 billion, will pay an aggregate purchase price of approximately $21 million.

    C&C Media was founded in June 2001 and operates a website called “MK-STYLE” which features online games and related services for individual users.

    Perfect World primarily develops online games based on proprietary game engines and development platforms. The company’s current portfolio of self-developed online games includes massively multiplayer online role playing games “Perfect World,” “Legend of Martial Arts,” “Perfect World II,” “Zhu Xian,” “Chi Bi,” “Pocketpet Journey West,” “Battle of the Immortals” and “Fantasy Zhu Xian;” and an online casual game: “Hot Dance Party.”

    While a substantial portion of its revenues are generated in its home country China, Perfect World’s games have been licensed to leading game operators in a number of countries and regions in Asia, Europe and South America. The company also generates revenues from game operation in North America.

    The news of the acquisition comes days after Perfect World rival The9 invested $20 million in U.S.-based Red 5 Studios.

    Company: Perfect World
    Website: perfectworld.com
    Launch Date: 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:PWRD

    Perfect World is a China-based online game developer and publisher specializing in 3D MMORPGs. (NASDAQ: PWRD)

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