Here is another one, in China: Chinese game company 9You announced the launch of its first virtual world product GTown. Developed in-house by 9You, GTown offers a 3D interactive online community platform. Unlike many other virtual worlds such as Second Life, GTown users can download additional game software packages to play 9You’s existing casual games through the virtual world. The launch of GTown will allow users to allow 9You’s gamers to interact on a uniform platform and use their existing avatars and game accounts to explore the virtual world.
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9You, a Chinese music and casual games distributor, announced its first virtual world today: GTown. Redline China reports that GTown was developed in-house to tie the existing online community of 280 million registered avatars and casual gamers together in a place where they could download and continue to play 9You's existing casual games library. A quick Google Translation shows that the company spent 2.5 years and $1.4 million to develop the virtual world, though Redline says that no release date has been set.
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