Does Kingsoft develop its games in-house?
We believe we have one of the largest in-house entertainment research and development teams in China. We have self-developed the majority of our entertainment products. We have five game design studios located in Zhuhai, Beijing, Chengdu and Dalian. Each of these game design studios has a different area of focus and is responsible for the overall research development and testing of each assigned product. Our game design studios are assigned as follows: • Zhuhai-swordsman games, such as the JX Online series; • Beijing (two studios) – mythology games, such as the First Myth series and the San Guo game; • Chengdu -cartoon-style games, such as CQ; • Dalian-Casual online games. We actively encourage knowledge sharing among our game design studios through formal rotation programs for our experienced game design staff. As of June 30, 2009, our five game design studios had approximately 1300 employees. Our associate, Kingsoft Guangzhou, also operates a game design studio and is developing MMOR
