教学课件 商务英语阅读（第2册）.ppt

Notes Registered users reached 25 million by April 2005, with 576,000 peak concurrent players on 198 game servers, considered the fastest growing online game in China at the time. Average concurrent users was reported in August 2006 to be around 400,000. The game uses the same engine as?Westward Journey II?with a distinctively different graphical style. Both games are inspired by the Chinese novel?Journey to the West. 梦幻西游 Notes Journey to the West (Para. 3): 西游记（手游） Notes Onmyoji (Para. 3): 阴阳师 （网易 手游） Notes ACG (Para. 3): An abbreviation of Anime,?Comic and?Games, used in some subcultures of Greater China?. Because a strong economic and cultural connection exists between anime, manga and games in the Japanese market. ACG is used to describe this phenomenon in relative fields. The term refers in particular to Japanese?anime,?manga?and?video games, with the video Notes games usually referring togalgames. The term is not normally translated into Chinese; if the meaning needs to be translated, it is usually “动漫游戏”. Notes Shanda (Para. 7): A Chinese operator of online games and book publisher, based in Shanghai, established in December 1999 by?Chen Tianqiao?and?Chen Danian. In 2005 it claimed to have 460 million registered accounts and an average of 1.2million players at any given time. Its 2004 listing on the US-based NASDAQ stock exchange raised $151.8 million USD. Notes In September 2001, Shanda published its first game,?The Legend of Mir 2?(Licensed from a Korean company, WeMade Soft). Shandas published and operated games include?AION,?MapleStory,?The World of Legend,?The Age,?Magical Land,?Ragnarok Online,?Dungeons Dragons Online,?Crazy Arcade, and?GetAmped. 盛大游戏有限公司 Notes AION (Para. 7): 永恒之塔 （手游；在中国大陆由盛大游戏有限公司代理运营） Notes Sony (Para. 8) : A Japanese multinational?conglomerate?corporation headquartered in Kōnan,?Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronocs, gaming, entertainment, and financial services.